Storms v. Schilling

This appeal is by the ward from an order of the circuit court in a guardianship proceeding which approved the guardian’s final accounting, charged expenses of a certified public accountant to the estate, denied compensation for the guardian and his attorney fees and required the delivery of remaining assets in possession of the guardian to the ward and exonerated the surety. The guardian cross-appealed from the part of the order which denied him compensation and attorney fees.

On November 1, 1971 the ward, who was operating her women’s apparel shop in Newport, fell down a flight of stairs in…