Harris v. Harris

2 R.I. 538

• Court: Supreme Court of Rhode Island
• Decided: September 6, 1853
• Status: Published

Opinion

The Court were of the opinion that petitions by or on behalf of two or more, might be embraced in a single application to the Probate Court for the appointment of a guardian, and that the judgments of the Court upon these several petitions, and also upon a separate application made in connection with them for the appointment of the same guardian, like the two applications in the present case, might be embraced in a single decree, and that in appealing from such a decree the appellant might confine his appeal to so much of the decree as related to one or more of the petitioners without appealing from jthe entire decree, but that, where the appeal was from the decision of the Court upon two distinct applications, a separate appeal must be taken and a separate appeal bond filed in reference to each. Whether in case .of an appeal from a decision in reference to two persons whose petitions were embraced in one application, a separate appeal and bond was required as to each person, the Court did not decide though they intimated that such was their opinion.

Appeal dismissed,