Holden v. Crawford
Supreme Court of Vermont
— IN CHANCERY. CHARLES HOLDEN, in the year 1820, being about the age of seventy-two years, was a very weak minded man. Though in the earlier part of his life he had been an industrious, discreet person, and had acquired a real estate in Westminster, of the value of $2500,00, which he still possessed, yet, for the last twenty years or more, he had led a roving sort of life, absenting himself much from his family, and going to the city of New-Yorlc and other distant places,…
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— IN CHANCERY. CHARLES HOLDEN, in the year 1820, being about the age of seventy-two years, was a very weak minded man. Though in the earlier part of his life he had been an industrious, discreet person, and had acquired a real estate in Westminster, of the value of $2500,00, which he still possessed, yet, for the last twenty years or more, he had led a roving sort of life, absenting himself much from his family, and going to the city of New-Yorlc and other distant places, where he engaged in peddling and other small traffick, and gambled in lotteries, having imbibed an impression that he…
1Opinion of the Court
Hutchinson, Chancellor,
as follows:
Several grounds for a decree have been urged by the orators, among which, one is, that the deed from Holden the elder to Crawford, is inoperative, as against the heirs, on account of the guardianship under which he laboured. This is answered by the affirmance, that the guardianship was illegal and void, and if not, it had ceased by the departure of both guardian and warit from the statej by the restoration of the property to the ward, &c.
Were the cause to' be decided upon this point wholly, the Court might not be perfectly agreed in their opinion. Factá might…
2Cited by1 opinion
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