Welch v. Childers

The question in this case is whether or not the guardian of a minor will be permitted to file and have allowed the final account of his guardianship where he has failed to make annual accounts, as required by statute, and the expenditures shown by such final account were not authorized by previous orders of the chancery court, and are unsupported by any vouchers. The chancellor held in the affirmative, which we are of opinion was error.

The appellant, Agnes Lee Childers Welch, and appellee, S. B. Childers, are half brother and sister, their father being the same. She was born in 1917. Shortly…