Case ID: ky_30/html/0501-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Nicholas", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Poston vs. Young.
    Motion. Case 154.
    Error to the Logan County Court.
    
      ■Guardian, appointment of. County court. Orphans.
    
    County court has no jurisdiction or power lo appoint a guardian for an infant while the father of the infant is alive.
    A ■ orphan, in It gal p -.rlaiii c, is a fatln .loss chilli.
    
      Mordicad and Ewing for plaintiff; Breathitt for defendant.
    October 13.
   Judge Nicholas

delivered the opinion of tie court.

Upon the application of Young, the county court, appointed him guardian to the infant daughter of Poston, it appearing that she was the proprietor of a valuable estate derived from her deceased mother, and the court having first offered to •confer the appointment on Poston, which he refused to take.

The court had no jurisdiction or. authority to appoint a guardian to the infant. The statute only confers tfie authority in cases of orphans. An orphan, in legal parlance, is a fatherless child.

Order reversed, with costs, and case remanded, with directions to set aside and annul the order.