In Re Heard's Guardianship

Ethridge, P. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court..On. October 27,1931, .Laura Heard filed.'a petition in the chancery court -of F-orrest county, Mississippi,, praying for '.appointment as guardian of .Buth Heard* a .minor seventeen years of - age, reciting as follows: ‘ ‘ Comes now Laura Heard, a. resident citizen, of Hinds County, Mississippi, and would state and show the facts followings That she is the mother of Buth Heard, a minor, now: of the age of seventeen years, and that by reason of the death of John Heard, the father of said minor, said minor has inherited a small sum of money,,…