Court Opinion

ID: 9643383
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 20:27:38.946236+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:00.256465
License: Public Domain

On Motion For Rehearing.
Plaintiffs’ motion for rehearing has been considered and it is overruled.
Plaintiffs say that our construction of Article 1987, R.S.1895, as authorizing the probate court to make the conveyance to Wallace deprives the ward of the protection of the statutes requiring an additional bond from the guardian when he sells the ward’s land, but this argument does not take into account the fact that the statutes concerning guardian’s bonds have been materially changed since the conveyance was made to Wallace. Under the statutes in force when the probate court authorized the conveyance to Wallace and when the guardian made his deed to Wallace, no additional bond was required from the guardian when he sold the ward’s land, and the ward had exactly the same protection against loss of the money paid the guardian by Wallace as he would have had against loss of money paid the guardian upon a sale of the ward’s land. In both instances, the only bond required was the guardian’s general bond. See Articles 2600, 2660 and 2675, R.S.1895, which became Articles 4099, 4162 and 4177, R.S.1911. These Articles were amended in 1913, and by this amendment the amount of the guardian’s general bond was reduced and the guardian was required to furnish an additional bond when he sold the ward’s land. See Chapter 151, General Laws, Acts of 1913, p. 321; Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. arts. 4141, 4201, 4216.