Nunnery v. Day
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Amite County. Hon. Lauch McLaurin, Chancellor. In 1886 the Probate Court of Amite County granted to Samuel O’Neal, letters of guardianship of the person and estate of Eobert H. Day, then a minor. O’Neal executed a guardian’s bond with John H. Nunnery and Joseph Hughes as his sureties. On October 6, 1877, Eobert H. Day became of age. Hughes died soon afterward intestate, and no administrator of his estate has since been appointed.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Amite County. Hon. Lauch McLaurin, Chancellor. In 1886 the Probate Court of Amite County granted to Samuel O’Neal, letters of guardianship of the person and estate of Eobert H. Day, then a minor. O’Neal executed a guardian’s bond with John H. Nunnery and Joseph Hughes as his sureties. On October 6, 1877, Eobert H. Day became of age. Hughes died soon afterward intestate, and no administrator of his estate has since been appointed. On November 11,.1884, Day presented his petition to the chancery court against Samuel O’Neal and John H. Nunnery, setting out the…
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, J,,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Our statute provides that the powers and duties of a guardian over the person and estate of his ward shall cease and determine when the ward arrives at age or marries, and that in either event the guardian shall forthwith deliver to the ward all the property of every description in his hands belonging to the ward, and that on failure to do so suit may be brought on the guardian’s bond. While suit may be brought on the bond of the guardian for failure to comply with the law in this respect, the statute does not relieve him from making final account…
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