Waldrip v. Tulley
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Independence Circuit Court. Hon. R. H. Powell, Judge. Section 3485, Mansfield’s Digest, gives the guardian the care and management of minors’ estates, subject to the superintending control of the probate court. This means that he shall take charge of it and make such uses of it for the benefit of the ward, as a prudent and careful man would of his own property.
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APPEAL from Independence Circuit Court. Hon. R. H. Powell, Judge. Section 3485, Mansfield’s Digest, gives the guardian the care and management of minors’ estates, subject to the superintending control of the probate court. This means that he shall take charge of it and make such uses of it for the benefit of the ward, as a prudent and careful man would of his own property. The gin as it stood was valueless, and by repairing it and adding new machinery, it was made a source of income to the wards. The probate court would have made the order, if application had been made, but such an order was…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
Waldrip was guardian of Adler C. and John I). Magness. His wards were the owners of a cotton plantation, the annual rents from which ranged from $600 to $1000. There was a gin house, at which the cotton raised by the tenants and the planters of the neighborhood was ginned and prepared for market. At the date of Waldrip’s appointment the machinery of the gin had become worn out by long use. He advanced about $350 of his own money in the purchase of a new gin-stand, feeder, condenser, horse power, etc., and was thereby enabled to let the use of the gin on advantageous terms. In the midst of the…
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