Case ID: paige-ch_2/html/0412-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Chancellor", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the matter of Wilson and others, infants.
    •Upon an application to sell the estate of an infant, under the statute, the court will appoint liis- general guardian, if he has one, as the special guardian.
    Where, however, it' appears that the general guardian cannot procure the ' requisite security, another person may he appointed the special guardian to sell the property.
    On an application to appoint a special guardian to sel the estate of infants, under the statute, it appeared that the infants had a general guardian appointed by the surrogate, but a different, person was recommended by him as the special guardian.
   The Chancellor

said the general guardian of the infants was the proper person to be appointed to sell their real estate ; and that another person ought not to be appointed for that purpose without some special reasons shown to the court, That such a proceeding would subject the infants to extra expense, and require two separate accounts of expenditures for their support.

On a subsequent day the father of the infants, who was their general guardian, presented a new petition, showing that he was anxious to accept the trust himself, but that, after diligent application, he was unable to procure the requisite security, as required by the rules of the eourt. An order was thereupon made for the appointment of another person as special guardian, for the ^purposes of the application.