Peel v. McCarthy
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant from a judgment of the district court for Ramsey county, Simons, J., presiding, affirming a judgment of the probate court.
1Opinion of the CourtDickinson, J.
In or prior to 1868, Jeremiah McCarthy was, by the probate court of Dakota county, appointed guardian of an infant, Mary Connors. In that year, as such guardian, and under license from that court, he sold certain real estate of the infant, and rejceived the price of it, $902.89. This sale was never reported to nor confirmed by the court; but the former ward (now Mary C. Peel) affirmed the sale, and sought to recover the price so paid to her former guardian, which he had never paid over or accounted for to the proIbate court. In August, 1885, Mary C. Peel filed her petition to the *452probate…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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