Arrowsmith v. Gleason
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAR PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP OHIO. The case was stated by the court as follows: This suit involves the title to certain lands inherited by the plaintiff, and sold some years ago by his statutory guardian, the defendant Gleason, under authority conferred by proceedings instituted by him in the Probate Court of Defiance County, in the State of Ohio.
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APPEAR PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OP OHIO. The case was stated by the court as follows: This suit involves the title to certain lands inherited by the plaintiff, and sold some years ago by his statutory guardian, the defendant Gleason, under authority conferred by proceedings instituted by him in the Probate Court of Defiance County, in the State of Ohio. The plaintiff attacks the order of sale as invalid, prays that the deeds executed to the purchaser be declared void, that an accounting in respect to rents and profits be had, and that such other…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Hablan,
after stating the case, delivered the Opinion .of the court.
One of tbe grounds of demurrer was that the plaintiff had, upon his own showing, a plain, adequate and complete remedy at law, namely, an action of ejectment for the recovery of the lands in controversy. The statutes of Ohio, in force at the time Gleason was appointed guardian, as well.as when these lands were sold by him, provides that: “Before any person shall be appointed guardian of the estate of any minor, he ... . shall give bond, with freehold sureties, payable to the State of Ohio, . . . which bond shall be…
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