Lenore Williamson Burgess, Individually and as Guardian of the Estate of Ethel Jackson Williamson, a Non Compos Mentis v. Warren Jackson Williamson

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises from an Alabama diversity case in which a sister sued her brother for an accounting and damages as to the handling of their mother’s financial affairs. The parties are now co-guardians of their incompetent mother’s estate, but the son’s activities, which were the subject of his sister’s complaints, involve a long period prior to the establishment of the guardianship, during the years in which the defendant invested funds for his mother. Basically, the sister alleged that her brother had commingled their mother’s funds with his own, had not rendered a…