Purdy v. Melton

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hurt

Affirming.

W. F. Purdy, Jr., was the statutory guardian of Rasco Melton, Minnie Melton, Herbert Melton, and Willis Melton, who were infants, and on the 3rd day of June, 1911, made a settlement with the county court, which showed that he owed these infants $250.45. On the same day he fled the country and has not been heard of since that time. J. H. Tharp, who succeeded W. F. Purdy, Jr., as the guardian for the infants, brought this suit in the Ballard Circuit Court against Purdy, and procured an attachment, at the same time, which was levied upon a house and lot…