Williams v. Bonner
Mississippi Supreme Court
From: the chancery court of Jones county. Hon. Stone Devours, Chancellor. Williams, appellant, was complainant in the court below, and Bonner, guardian of Ruby Bonner, an infant, was defendant there. The suit was an application to the chancery court, in which the guardianship was pending, for a decree directing the guardian to pay complainant’s debt from the estate of the ward.
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From: the chancery court of Jones county. Hon. Stone Devours, Chancellor. Williams, appellant, was complainant in the court below, and Bonner, guardian of Ruby Bonner, an infant, was defendant there. The suit was an application to the chancery court, in which the guardianship was pending, for a decree directing the guardian to pay complainant’s debt from the estate of the ward. The chancery court disallowed the application and dismissed the suit, and complainant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. The act of February 10, 1894, repealing § 2196,…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
Dr. Williams was a practicing physician at Ellisville, where he resided, and, as surgeon and physician, was called by J. L. Bonner to attend upon his minor daughter, Ruby Bonner, who lived with him, some ten miles in the country. Ruby was involuntarily shot by her own hand, was seriously wounded, and her life despaired of. Dr. Williams was called to her, and his bill for $107.50 is agreed to be reasonable. J. L. Bonner was then, and is yet, the guardian of Ruby, who had a small estate in his hands, and at the time of her misfortune had no order of court to expend any of the capital of her…
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