Harding v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk on January 15, 1916, and afterwards amended, by the father of Virginia M. (otherwise known as Virginia R.) Harding,' a minor,' alleging that Ella W. Brown had filed a petition for her appointment as guardian of the minor on February 24, 1915, in which she alleged that the father was an unfit person to be guardian of his daughter; that a copy of the citation on that petition had been received by the father in…
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Petition, filed in the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk on January 15, 1916, and afterwards amended, by the father of Virginia M. (otherwise known as Virginia R.) Harding,' a minor,' alleging that Ella W. Brown had filed a petition for her appointment as guardian of the minor on February 24, 1915, in which she alleged that the father was an unfit person to be guardian of his daughter; that a copy of the citation on that petition had been received by the father in Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania on May 6, 1915, but that the citation contained no allegation that the father was…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The petition as amended asks that the decree appointing the respondent guardian of Virginia M. Harding, minor daughter of the petitioner and Loma R. Harding, his wife now deceased, be revoked, and, in the alternative, that she may be removed. By R. L. c. 145, § 1, and § 4 as amended by St. 1902, c. 474, and by *85St. 1904, c. 163, the court of probate is given original jurisdiction over the appointment of guardians of minors and of insane persons, and the validity of the decree is attacked on the ground that the citation on the petition contained no allegation “that the father was an unfit…
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