White v. Parker
New York Supreme Court
This was an appeal, brought in 1847, from a decree of the surrogate of the county of Erie, in the matter of the accounting of the appellant, as the guardian of the respondent.
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This was an appeal, brought in 1847, from a decree of the surrogate of the county of Erie, in the matter of the accounting of the appellant, as the guardian of the respondent. Early in the year 1826, and when Helen M. White, the respondent, was about one year of age, her father, George White, died intestate, leaving her, his only child and heir at law, under the protection of her mother ; and leaving some four or five thousand dollars worth of personal property, besides some real estate. On the 8th day of February, 1826, letters of administration of this estate were granted by the surrogate…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Mullett, J.
The examination of this case involves an inquiry into the rights, duties and liabilities of one of the most delicate and important artificial relations known to civilized life—that of guardian and ward,—a relation by which the guardian assumes, and is bound to the performance of arduous duties without compensation j and required to exercise a parent’s watchfulness, care and solicitude, without a parent’s hope; a relation by which not only the pecuniary rights, but the moral character and all the elements of the future respectability, prosperity and happiness of…
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