Lámar v. Micou

Citations

• 114 U.S. 218
• 5 S. Ct. 857
• 29 L. Ed. 94
• 1885 U.S. LEXIS 274

Syllabus

<p>A guardian, appointed in a State which is not the domicil of the ward, should not, in accounting in the State of his appointment for his investment of the ward’s property, be held, unless in obedience to express statute, to a narrower range of securities than is allowed by the law of the State of the ward’s domicil.</p> <p>Infants having a domicil in one State, who after the death of. both their parents take up their residence at the home of their paternal grandmother and next of kin in another State, acquire her domicil.</p> <p>The courts of the United States take judicial notice of the law of any State of the Union, whether depending on statutes or on judicial opinions.</p> <p>Lamar v. Mioou, 112 U. S. 452, confirmed.</p>