Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. Freud

Urner, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court..

The Orphans’ Court of Baltimore City, with one of its members dissenting, passed an order authorizing the appellee as guardian to invest in a promissory note to be executed by himself individually the sum of fifteen hundred dollars of the money of his ward. This appeal is taken from a subsequent order of that Court overruling the appellant’s objections, as surety on the guardian’s bond, to the recognition of the loan as an investment. The single question to be considered is whether the Orphans’ Court had jurisdiction to permit the guardian to…