Hastings v. Huber

The appeal is from a decree of the probate court in the settlement of a guardianship. The decisions of this court are to the effect that a guardian is chargeable with any property of the ward which could have been received or recovered by the use of reasonable ■ diligence to that end — the diligence which a prudent man would exercise in the prosecution of his own like affairs. Sims v. Russell, 236 Ala. 562, 183 So. 862; Dumas v. Hollins, 228 Ala. 644, 154 So. 781; Hall v. Esslinger, 235 Ala. 451, 179 So. 639; Code of 1923, §§ 8149, 8170.

It is further a rule of evidence that when a guardian…