38 Minn. 451 | Minn. | 1888
In or prior to 1868, Jeremiah McCarthy was, by the probate court of Dakota county, appointed guardian of an infant, Mary Connors. In that year, as such guardian, and under license from that court, he sold certain real estate of the infant, and rejceived the price of it, $902.89. This sale was never reported to nor confirmed by the court; but the former ward (now Mary C. Peel) affirmed the sale, and sought to recover the price so paid to her former guardian, which he had never paid over or accounted for to the proIbate court. In August, 1885, Mary C. Peel filed her petition to the
We are of the opinion that the probate court of Dakota county had authority to call upon the administratrix of the deceased guardian’s estate to account for the moneys of the ward received by the
Judgment affirmed.