Phillips v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a court has the inherent jurisdiction and right to protect minors and their property and to determine whether a contract by which the attorney was employed was fair and reasonable at the time it was entered into
• holding that a court has the inherent jurisdiction and right to protect minors and their property and to determine whether a contract by which the attorney was employed was fair and reasonable at the time it was entered into
• “The next friend of a minor has power to act on that minor’s behalf.”
• circuit court has inherent jurisdiction and right to protect minors and their property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).