Beaty v. Hylton

This is an appeal by a guardian from a judgment against him in an action involving his final accounting in guardianship. This action involves the question of guardian’s liability for depreciation in value and loss on a real estate mortgage of $10,000 made by a former guardian and turned over on his resignation to his successor, the one now appealing.

Jean Pauline Phillips, the ward, was born August 16, 1918, and upon the death of her father and mother her uncle, Joseph S. Phillips, was first appointed her guardian by the Essex county orphans’ court for the state of New Jersey. As he lived in…