Legal Opinion

Cotton's Guardian v. Wolf

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided October 17, 1878PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Cases 22, 23, 24 — PETITIONS EQUITY APPEALS FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. The order appointing the guardian can not be attacked in this action. (Jacobs’s adm’r v: L. & N. R. R. Co., 10 Bush, 271; Westcott v. Cady, 5 John.’s Ch. R. 234; Freeman on Judgments, 132.) 2., Effect of marriage óf female guardian upon her trust. (1 Revised Statutes, 545; Bacon’s Abr. 554; 8 Simmons, 346; 1 Beavan, 348 ; 2 Douglass (Mich.) 433.) 3. Judges£>ro tem of Jefferson County Court.

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Cases 22, 23, 24 — PETITIONS EQUITY APPEALS FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. The order appointing the guardian can not be attacked in this action. (Jacobs’s adm’r v: L. & N. R. R. Co., 10 Bush, 271; Westcott v. Cady, 5 John.’s Ch. R. 234; Freeman on Judgments, 132.) 2., Effect of marriage óf female guardian upon her trust. (1 Revised Statutes, 545; Bacon’s Abr. 554; 8 Simmons, 346; 1 Beavan, 348 ; 2 Douglass (Mich.) 433.) 3. Judges£>ro tem of Jefferson County Court. (Myers’s Supp. 771-2.) 4. The bonds of the second guardian are valid even if the county court had no jurisdiction to make the…

1Opinion of the Court

CHiSf JUSTICE PRYOR

delivered the opinion op the court.

In the year 1863 Virginia K. Cotton, mother of the infant appellants, was appointed and qualified as their statutory *242guardian in Woodford County Court. She removed to the county of Jefferson in the year 1867, and in December of that year intermarried with William H. Terrell. In a short time after her marriage, in the month of February, 1868, being advised by Charles Cotton, who was the surety in her guardian’s bond, and by the judge of the Woodford County Court, that her marriage terminated the guardianship, she delivered over to Cotton…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Palmer v. OakleyMichigan Supreme Court · 1847
  2. Stevenson v. MillerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1822
  3. Edmonds v. MorrisonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1837
  4. Leavel v. BettisCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1867

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. RaineyTennessee Supreme Court · 1907
  2. Title & Trust Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1931
  3. Anderson's Committee v. Anderson's AdministratorCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1914
  4. Soules v. RobinsonIndiana Supreme Court · 1902
  5. Husbands v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1911

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