Brannan v. McWilliams

1. The plaintiff, a minor, suing by next friend, alleged that the defendant, her guardian, had purchased two tracts of land belonging to the estate of her mother, at an undervalue, by representing to prospective bidders that he purposed to buy the land for her in order that her money might be well invested; and she prayed that he be decreed to hold the land as her trustee. ' No demurrer to the petition was filed. On the trial there was evidence tending to show that the defendant was the plaintiff’s uncle, and not long before the sale of the land by the administrator of her deceased mother he…