Court Opinion

ID: 5548931
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-10 21:28:35.9814+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:34:58.985733
License: Public Domain

The Vice-Chancellor,
this day, said, he had perused the petition and master’s report, in connection with the 148th rule of the court; and he was of opinion, the court could exercise a discretion as to the amount in which the proposed guardian and his sureties should justify. The rule was a wholesome one, but it could be relaxed in extraordinary cases. He thought the amount in which the petitioner and sureties had justified was sufficient. His honor further sa.id, he had perused the form of the proposed order; and as he considered.the provisions of it contained a sufficient safeguard upon the infants’ property and rights, he directed it to be adopted.
*60The following was the form of the order:'
“ On reading and filing the petition of Timothy Hedges, « praying that he, the said Timothy, be' appointed guardian í( tjie persons anc¡ estates of Mary -Rutgers, M'Crea “ Hedges and Catharine Ann Hedges, both infants under the “ age of fourteen years; and on reading and filing the report “ of Thomas Addis Emmet, Esquire, .the taxing master of “ the first circuit, annexed to said petition, by which said re- “ port it appears, among other things, that the matters set “ 'forth in said petition are true, and that the said Timothy “ Hedges, who is the father of said infants, is the person en- “ titled to become the guardian of their persons and estates, “ and that he is a competent and proper person to be “ such guardian; and on motion of Mr. Murray Hoffman, “ of counsel for petitioner, it is ordered: that the said Timo- “ thy Hedges be, and he is hereby appointed guardian “ of the persons and estates of the said Mary. Rutgers “ M‘Crea- Hedges and Catharine Ann Hedges, the said in- “ fonts, upon his executing, together with Zebedee Ring and “ Joseph Hoxie, the sureties named in such report, a bond in “ the usual form, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to “ such infants, to be approved of by the said. Thomas “ Addis Emmet, one of the masters of this court, and filing “ such bond with the clerk of this court. And it is further “ ordered, that the said guardian do account annually, “ and pay into the office of the clerk of this court an- “ nually, the amount of the balance of the rents, issues, and “ profits of the estate of said infants, which shall be found in “-•his hands upon the passing of his accounts hereafter order- “ ed. And it is further ordered, that the clerk of this court “ do invest such rents, issues, and profits, so to be paid “ into his office, either on bond and mortgage of real “ estate in the city of New York, or in productive stocks, “ as he in his discretion may think advisable. And it is fur- “ ther ordered, that the injunction master for the first circuit, for the time being, shall yearly and every year, after the “ date of this order, issue Ins summons to the said guardian *61hereby appointed, requiring him to appear before him at a “ certain time to be fixed in such summons, to render an ac-u countof his guardianship duly verified; that suchmaster shall “ direct the said summons to be served by the solicitor prose- “ outing this appointment, or, in his discretion, by such other soli- “ citor as he shall select; that such master examine and take “ due proof of the said accounts, and report the balance,if any, “ remaining in the hands of such guardian. And it is hereby “ made the duty of such solicitor to attend before the master “ upon the passing of such accounts, and to' take all legal “ measures for the due execution of this order and of every “ part thereof. And it is further ordered, that such master “ do give notice to the sureties of such guardian of the time “ and place appointed by him for examining such accounts, “ who shall be at liberty to attend before him, but shall nof “ be entitled to costs therefor, unless ordered by this court, “ upon special application. And it is further ordered, “ that such guardian do pay into the hands of the clerk of “ this court such balance as shall be found due from him upon “ the passing his accounts from time to time as aforesaid, “ within twenty days from the filing of the said master’s re- “ port, or in default thereof, that such solicitor do apply to “ this court for an attachment against such guardian, or that “ the bond executed by him and his sureties be put in suit, “ or for such further order as shall be right; and the said “ sureties are also to be at liberty to apply to this court, after “ the expiration of said twenty days, for an attachment or for “ such order in the premises as shall be just. And it is fur- “ ther ordered, that the said injunction master do, in the month “ of January in every year, when he shall examine the ac- “ counts of such guardian, as required by the 156th rule of this court, also report to this court whether the balance found due by him at the preceding passing of the “ accounts of such guardian, made pursuant to this order, “ has been paid into this court or not. And it is further or- “ dered, that a certified copy of this order be forthwith “ served by the solicitor prosecuting this appointment upon “ the injunction master of this circuit and also upon each of a the said sureties,”