Ames v. Williams
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Noxubee county. HoN. T. B. Graham, Chancellor. The opinion states the case. It is not necessary, in this case, to discuss any general propositions in respect to the power of the chancery court to appoint guardians for minors, nor whether, in ordinary instances, the residence of the minor in the county constitutes a jurisdictional fact.
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From the chancery court of Noxubee county. HoN. T. B. Graham, Chancellor. The opinion states the case. It is not necessary, in this case, to discuss any general propositions in respect to the power of the chancery court to appoint guardians for minors, nor whether, in ordinary instances, the residence of the minor in the county constitutes a jurisdictional fact. All these questions are excluded by the fact that § 2117, code 1880, the law of the special instance, provides its own terms and fixes, beyond cavil, the facts of jurisdictional nature. The power of the state to appoint a guardian to…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
Robert C. Ratty was the clerk of the .chancery .court of Nox-ubee county, .and C. B. Ames was .one of the sureties on his official bond. Both Patty and Ames are dead. Patty, as clerk of the chancery court of Noxubee .county, was appointed by that court guardian to the appellees, and their estates went into his hands. This is a proceeding instituted by the appellees in the said chancery court, against the representatives of Patty and Ames, praying that Patty’s administrator may he required to settle the accounts of the guardian, and that, for any sums found to be due, proper decrees may be…
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