Dorsey v. Murphy

The appellant, complainant in the chancery court of Leake County, Mississippi, filed a bill against E. A. Murphy, guardian, the National Surety Corporation (surety on the guardian’s bond) and the Leake County Bank, setting forth in substance that: Her father was a veteran of the World War, and he died in 1917 when she was an infant nineteen days old. Her father, as such veteran, was entitled to insurance under provisions of the Federal Law, and that in the year 1923, the defendant, E. A. Murphy, filed his petition in the chancery court to be appointed guardian, and to receive and handle the…