In re Mells
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Appanoose Circuit Court. B. P. Mells was appointed guardian of O. L. Bland, a minor, and accepted the trust on the twenty-fourth day of August, 1877. Mells made no report of his guradianship to the court at any time during the minority of his ward. After Bland became twenty-one years of age, he caused a citation to issue from the court below, requiring his said guardian to make a report.
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Appeal from, Appanoose Circuit Court. B. P. Mells was appointed guardian of O. L. Bland, a minor, and accepted the trust on the twenty-fourth day of August, 1877. Mells made no report of his guradianship to the court at any time during the minority of his ward. After Bland became twenty-one years of age, he caused a citation to issue from the court below, requiring his said guardian to make a report. A report was accordingly filed, to which Bland made certain objections and exceptions. Tbe ■ matter in controversy was referred, and, upon a full hearing and trial, the referee reported that…
1Opinion of the Court
Bothroce, Oh. J.
T. At the date of the commencement of the guardianship, O. L. Bland was fifteen years and five months old. He was an orphan, his father having died when he was quite young. ■ His mother re-married, and he *392remained with-his mother and step-father until his mother died, which event occurred early in the year 1877. His father and his step-father were farmers, and lived on farms near Centerville, Appanoose county. Previous to the appointment of Mells as guardian, John Bland had been the guardian of O. L. Bland and three of his brothers.' The referee found as a fact that when Mells…
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