Fridge v. State ex rel. Kirk
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Cross Appeals from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of Debt commenced on the 31st of January, 1825, in the name of the State of Maryland, at the instance, and for the use of Eliza Ann Kirk, against Alexander Fridge, on a bond executed by one Owen Dorsey as the principal, and the said Fridge and another as sureties, dated the 11th of April, 1817, conditional for the faithful discharge of the trust of said Dorsey, as guardian to the said Eliza Ann Kirk and Ann C.…
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Cross Appeals from Baltimore County Court. This was an action of Debt commenced on the 31st of January, 1825, in the name of the State of Maryland, at the instance, and for the use of Eliza Ann Kirk, against Alexander Fridge, on a bond executed by one Owen Dorsey as the principal, and the said Fridge and another as sureties, dated the 11th of April, 1817, conditional for the faithful discharge of the trust of said Dorsey, as guardian to the said Eliza Ann Kirk and Ann C. Kirk. All errors in pleading on both sides were released; and it was agreed that either party might raise any objection,…
1Opinion of the Court
Bu ch a v ax, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The suit is by the State on a guardian’s bond, for the use of a female ward, instituted after she attained the age of sixteen, but before she arrived at twenty-one, against one of the sureties in the bond. It is insisted on the part of the defendant below, First, That if Eliza Ann Kirk, for whose use the action was brought, had a natural guardian at the time of the appointment by the Orphans Court of Baltimore county, of Owen Dorsey, the principal in the bond as her guardian, the court exceeded its jurisdiction in making the appointment,…
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