Guion v. Guion's Administrator
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. contended that a mother is not bound to support her infant children, when they hare property of their own, no matter what her circumstances may be, though it is otherwise with the father. Cites, 4 Kent’s Com. 191. Reeve’s Domestic Reí. 324. Dawes v. Howard, 4 Mass. 97. Whipple v. Dow, 2 Mass. 415. White’s Leading Cases in Equity, found in vol. 70, L. Lib. p. 158, note and cases cited.
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. contended that a mother is not bound to support her infant children, when they hare property of their own, no matter what her circumstances may be, though it is otherwise with the father. Cites, 4 Kent’s Com. 191. Reeve’s Domestic Reí. 324. Dawes v. Howard, 4 Mass. 97. Whipple v. Dow, 2 Mass. 415. White’s Leading Cases in Equity, found in vol. 70, L. Lib. p. 158, note and cases cited. Hughes v. Hughes, 1 Brown’s C. Rep., Perkins’ edition, p. 387 and note. Burnett v. Burnett, 1 Brown C. R. 178. Bulsford v. Hunter, 2 ibid, 416. Haly v. Bannister, 4 Madd. ch.…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
This was a claim, exhibited in the Probate Court of St. Louis county, against the appellant, in which the appellee, recovering less than he claimed, appealed to the Circuit Court, where, on a trial anew, he recovered judgment^ against the appellant for $1427 10, the amount-Maínjed and interest, from which judgment the appellant appealed^toihis court.
Josephine Guión, the intestate, was the mother of the appel-lee, and waS appointed his guardian ; in which capacity, between April, 1836, and October, 1837, she received from the estate of Madam Hebert, the grandmother of the appellee, the sum of…
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