Buckley's Administrator v. Howard

Citations

• 35 Tex. 565

Syllabus

<p>1. The will of a married woman, devised a number of slaves, her separate property, to her children, and appointed her husband, the father of the legatees, to be their guardian, with directions that the slaves should be kept together and prudently managed by him. Held, that the obligations imposed by this testamentary guardianship differed in no material respect from those ordinarily assumed by guardians of the estates of minors.</p> <p>3. A father is bound to raise and educate his children at his own expense, and is not exonerated from this liability by the fact that his children have estates of their own, of which he is the guardian; and therefore he is not entitled, in the settlement of his guardianship accounts, to charge them with the cost of their nurture and education. But if he was unable to provide for their education out of his own means, the case would be different.</p>