Edmonds v. Morrison

delivered the following Opinion.

Judge Ewing did not sit in this case.

On the 4th of January, 1825, the infant children of Thales Morrison being entitled to a legacy by the will of their maternal grandfather, the County Court of Warren, in which the father and children were then living, appointed him their guardian, and took his bond to the Commonwealth, with James Edmonds as surety, *224in the penalty of one thousand dollars, with the condition that he should “faithfully discharge the duties of his office of guardian.”

A decree against the guardian and his surety, in personam, to be enforced by…