In Re Guardianship of Brubaker

Arda Brubaker McNulty was the duly appointed and legally qualified guardian of her minor son, Burl Brubaker. Thereafter, under the proper proceedings, she sold a tract of land belonging to her ward, and posted the necessary bond with sureties thereon, including one C. W. Bandell. The guardian invested on March 2, 1920, $5000 of the proceeds of the sale in a first mortgage on 40 acres of Mahaska County, Iowa, land, conceded to be worth at least tivice the amount of the mortgage. No complaint of this investment is made.

Subsequently, the guardian executed a release of the mortgage before the…