Court Opinion

ID: 9847481
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:00:23.694438+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:15.953072
License: Public Domain

Pannell, Judge,
concurring specially as to Division 1 of the opinion.
The guardian here, having unqualifiedly shown the savings accounts as belonging to the estate of his ward in the inventory prepared by the guardian and filed with the ordinary, and having subsequently treated these savings accounts as belonging to the estate of his ward with full knowledge of his interest therein, is estopped from setting up a title or interest adverse to the trust. Code § 38-117, codified from Allen v. Solomon, 54 Ga. 483, and Benjamin v. Gill, 45 Ga. 111. See also, Harris v. McDonald, 152 Ga. 18 (2) (108 SE 448) and Scott v. Haddock, 11 Ga. 258. The disbursement of the funds from these accounts, as guardian, to himself as an individual were, therefore, unauthorized and he is properly held *212accountable therefor. It follows that the priority of disbursement of funds of the estate on which the majority opinion is based is irrelevant to the decision of the case on this point.
I concur in the other divisions of the opinion as written.