Fitz-Gerald v. Bailey

Citations

• 58 Miss. 658

Syllabus

<p>Guardian and Ward. Money invested in Confederate bonds. Accountability for interest.</p> <p>Where a guardian, in pursuance of an order of the Probate Court, made in 1863, under an act of the Legislature approved August 2, 1861, invested his ward’s money in Confederate bonds, though such order was a nullity, and the guardian is chargeable with the money thus invested and lost, he cannot he made to pay interest on the same so long as his ward remained a minor and his guardianship continued; but if, upon the ward attaining majority, the guardian failed to account for the money so invested, he thereafter became chargeable with, legal interest on the amount thereof.</p>