Lewis v. Nall

2 Ky. Op. 559, 1868 Ky. LEXIS 500

• Court: Court of Appeals of Kentucky
• Decided: October 9, 1868
• Status: Published

Opinion

OPINION OE THE COURT BY

JUDGE K.OBERTSON

In equity the ward cannot hold her guardian responsible for the supply of necessaries, and especially, in her matrimonial outfit, beyond her annual revenue which he had a right to anticipate on such occasions, when her prospective income before the abolition, of slavery justified the belief that ultimately the aggregate outlay would not exceed her aggregate income.

. Nor can she justly hold him liable for her one-fifth of the price for which, the slave Baily was. sold. The sale was apparently prudent and rightful; the administrator who held him concurring with the guardian of all the wards. And there does not appear to have been any culpable negligence in failing to collect the debt.

Bickers, for appellant.

Moreover the settlement by the commissioner brought the ward in debt to the guardian and the settlement with him by herself and husband waived all those matters and left them in his debt, which they attempted to pay by an order on the administrator.

Under all these circumstances the appellants have no just cause to complain of the judgment dismisisng their petition and allowing the appellee nothing, which is affirmed.