Sudderth v. . McCombs

The intestaté of defendant received as guardian from the executor of Abram Harshaw, in May and June, 1859, bonds belonging to the estate amounting to the sum of $7,716.50, which it was his duty to collect and invest, or change into his own name as guardian, so as to make it a fund bearing interest at a compound rate. Besides these ante-war notes, the guardian had under his control valuable real estate and several negro slaves, from which properly a considerable quantity of confederate money was yielded every year, and with the same the guardian was chargeable up to the emancipation of slaves,…