Pickard v. Webb

Citations

• 118 Wash. 244
• 203 P. 51
• 1922 Wash. LEXIS 623

Syllabus

<p>Guardian and Ward (20) — Accounting—Obdeb oe Court — Necessity. A settlement between a guardian and ward after the latter attains his majority, made without an order of court, amounts to a legal discharge of the guardian, when made without fraud or abuse of the guardian’s position of influence over the ward.</p> <p>Same (24) — Accounting—Fraud—Evidence—Sueeiciency. The burden of showing perfect good faith incumbent on a guardian in dealing with a ward is sustained by evidence showing a full, fair and complete understanding of the ward at the time of a settlement between them after the ward had attained his majority.</p> <p>Same (24). Where a ward, at the time of an accounting and settlement between him and his guardian, has knowledge of facts sufficient to put him on inquiry as to his rights, his delay of eight years in commencing suit to set aside the settlement constitutes such laches as to give him no standing in a court of equity.</p>