In re Bodwell
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from a decree of the probate court for the district of Orleans, adjudging that the appellant was not a fit person to have the care and custody of her infant child and appointing another person guardian of such child. Heard upon motion to dismiss the appeal for that no bond had been filed, at the September term, 1893, Orleans county, Taft, J., presiding. The appeal was dismissed and the appellant excepted.
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Appeal from a decree of the probate court for the district of Orleans, adjudging that the appellant was not a fit person to have the care and custody of her infant child and appointing another person guardian of such child. Heard upon motion to dismiss the appeal for that no bond had been filed, at the September term, 1893, Orleans county, Taft, J., presiding. The appeal was dismissed and the appellant excepted. The decree was made March 28, 1893, and an appeal at once taken. No bond was then filed, but the appellant offered to show that one E. A. Cook proposed to become bail in the probate…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the probate court for the district of Orleans, adjudging the appellant, the mother of the minor Burleigh W. Bodwell, to be a person incompetent and unsuitable to have the custody, care and education of the minor, and appointing L. M. Hibbard, his guardian, to have the custody of his person and the care of his education. The application for an appeal from this decree was made to the probate court within twenty days from the date of the decision appealed from, as re*233quired by R. L., s. 2270, but within the twenty days the appellant did not give a bond to the…
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