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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 14

A' caso in which an infant's guardian— his stepmother—was sued to account for money allowed for. his maintenance during infancy, and alleged not to imu. been pronerly expended,- occupied on English Court for six days, and ended in judgment for the plaintiff; the guardian to givo an account of .£18,817, and to pay costs. This result shows that "guardians can ■ sometimes ho hold responsible for funds entrusted to them, if anyone can 1m found sufficiently interested in tho matter to start a law suit. In this case, the infant, who had once been certified as insane, waited till ho attained full ago and then ''went for" bis sten-.mothor-in the Courts.' The judgo found that in expending the money economy had been-the'first consideration and not tho boy' 3 welfare.. Had it been otherwise, the surplus. could not have beeu demanded.