Dupree v. Perry

The case made by the record is this.: Joseph E. Dupree died in the county of Pickens, leaving a widow and three children; the widow afterwards married Perry, the defendant in error, who was thereupon appointed by the Orphans’ Court of Pickens the guardian of the persons and estates of two of the orphan children, to-wit, Arabella and Thomas J. Dupree, (the other child having died in its infancy) — and entered upon the duties of guardian as the statute requires; afterwards the widow died and the said guardian removed to the State of Texas, taking with him Thomas, one of Ids wards, but leaving…