Beasley v. Watson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court of Barbour. In the matter of the final settlement of the accounts and vouchers of John Watson, as guardian of Jane A. Beasley, (late Williams,) wife of William Beasley.
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Barbour. In the matter of the final settlement of the accounts and vouchers of John Watson, as guardian of Jane A. Beasley, (late Williams,) wife of William Beasley. The guardian’s account was filed for settlement in September, 1865; and the settlement was made in Noyember, 1866, when the following bill of exceptions was reserved by said Beasley and wife: “Onjthe trial of this cause, it was proved that said guardian received from Thomas Bobinson, the former guardian of said ward, the sum of four hundred and twenty 44-100 dollars on the ¡24th 'January, ‘I860,…
1Opinion of the CourtJudge, J.
It was one of the guardian’s ordinary duties, to invest the surplus funds of his ward, and make interest thereon, if practicable.—Code, § 2024; Allen v. Martin, 36 Ala. 330. We think it sufficiently appears, from the evidence adduced on the final settlement, that the nine hundred dollars loaned by the guardian to Jonathan Thomas, belonged to the estates of his two wards, Jane and Columbiana Williams. The guardian so declared at the time of the loan; and this declaration, accompanying the act, and explanatory of it, was competent evidence as a part of the act itself. The truth of the…
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