Cohen v. Shyer

The Chancellor :

The bill in this case is filed by Pauline Cohen,“ next friend of her minor children Ann, Michael and Rachel Cohen,” to compel the defendant, M. Shyer, to settle his accounts as guardian, and to have an allowance out of the corpus of the estate of these infants for their support and maintenance, upon the ground of its “absolute necessity.” And yet, strange to say, the only contest with the guardian grows out of his claim for expenditures beyond the income of his wards, growing, as he insists, out of the same “absolute necessity.” The bill is so drafted, moreover, as to make it…