Blauser v. Diehl
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county: Of May Term 1879, No. 130. Debt on a bond by M. B. Blauser, guardian of Savannah I. Hartzel, against J. H. Myers, Jeremiah Diehl and John Wolford. The material facts were these: On the 20th of August 1860, Myers was appointed by the Orphans’ Court the guardian of the person and estate of Savannah I. Hartzel, a minor child of L. E. Hartzel, deceased.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county: Of May Term 1879, No. 130. Debt on a bond by M. B. Blauser, guardian of Savannah I. Hartzel, against J. H. Myers, Jeremiah Diehl and John Wolford. The material facts were these: On the 20th of August 1860, Myers was appointed by the Orphans’ Court the guardian of the person and estate of Savannah I. Hartzel, a minor child of L. E. Hartzel, deceased. On the same day, he filed a bond in the sum of $2000, made in pursuance of the Act of March 29th 1832, which was approved by the court. Diehl and Wolford were the sureties therein. The estate of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gordon
The court refused to charge the defendants, sureties of John H. Myers,-.guardian of Savannah I. Hartzel and Lebright E. Hartzel, for the default in his account of the proceeds resulting from a sale of the real estate of his wards, under the order of December 21st 1865.
This, we think, was right. A guardian has, by virtue -of his appointment, no power to alien the land of the minor or minors of whom he has charge; that power is conferred by statute, and only under and subject to prescribed conditions. It is a power entirely separate and distinct from that conferred by the appointment, the…
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