Robert v. Estate of Morrin

Plaintiff sues his mother’s estate to recover an amount claimed to have been received by her from the assets of a former guardian and not paid over to him.

Mrs. Morrin’s second husband became plaintiff’s guardian in 1838, and died in 1848 or 1849. In 1855 Mrs. Morrin, who, was his administratrix, rendered her final account. It showed the sum of five hundred sixty-three dollars and forty-eight cents in her hands due to her son, the plaintiff, who was then a minor, but nearly of age. The amount was balanced by giving a' note to Samuel Duval, as guardian of plaintiff, for that sum.

Plaintiff came…