Wise v. Norton

This is a bill in chancery filed by a married woman against her former guardian and her husband to set aside the guardian’s settlement in the rebel court of the county of Barbour in this State, made in 1861, and for a settlement in chancery, and also for the removal of the husband as the wife’s trustee of her separate estate. The bill alleges, that the court in which the settlement was made had no authority “to make it; that the ward was a minor when it was made, and had no notice of the settlement, as required by law; and that she was not represented in such settlement by any guardian ad…