Richardson v. Tyson
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Eugene S. Elliott, Circuit Judge. Appeal by general guardian from an order of tbe circuit court of Milwaukee county awarding compensation to Hamilton P. Richardson as guardian ad litem.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Eugene S. Elliott, Circuit Judge. Appeal by general guardian from an order of tbe circuit court of Milwaukee county awarding compensation to Hamilton P. Richardson as guardian ad litem. In 1894 certain real estate, vested in Virginia 0. Tyson, now Huggles, for life, with remainder to such of her children as she might appoint by will, and, in default of children, to unascertained beneficiaries, the value of which was, in round numbers, $150,000, had become seriously embarrassed by the failure of the life tenant to keep down taxes…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
Many of the underlying principles upon which rest the rights of the claimant here, as also the limitations of those rights, are already decided, not only as the law of the state, but as the irrevocably adjudicated law of this *578case, in Tyson v. Tyson, 94 Wis. 225, and Tyson v. Richardson, 103 Wis. 397. As most fundamental among these must be borne in mind that the infant is always the ward of every court wherein his rights or property are brought in jeopardy, and is entitled to most jealous care that no injustice be done him. The guardian ad litem is appointed merely to aid and enable the…
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