State ex rel. Gentry v. Fry

Opinion of Judge

McGirk.*

This was an action of debt brought in the name of the State to the use of Gentry and wife, against Fry as the Guardian of Elvira Fry, the wife of Gentry and against the securities. Since the bond was made the marriage took place — several breaches were assigned on the condition of the bond, alleging that Fry had received large sums of money belonging to the minor Elvira, and had failed to pay the same over.

To this action the defendants pleaded that on day of February 1833, the said Elvira was by an act of the general assembly of the State of Missouri divorced from the…