State ex rel. Druliner v. Clark
Decision Date | 28 May 1861 |
Citation | 16 Ind. 97 |
Parties | The State, on the relation of Druliner, v. Clark |
Court | Indiana Supreme Court |
APPEAL from the St. Joseph Common Pleas.
The judgment is affirmed, with costs.
R. L Farnsworth and J. A. Liston, for the appellant.
(1.) By counsel for appellant: Where the relation of parent and child exists, or is established by consent of one standing in the place of a parent, as a step-father, the child can not charge for its services, nor such person for necessaries or keeping. The presumption being that they are rendered in that relation, and not for compensation. 2 Kent 183; 5 Howard 122; 3 Comstock 317-321; 2 Wharton's Dig. § 49, p 5; 1 Parsons on Cont. 257; McDonald's Treatise, 490; U.S Dig. 79, 218; 6 Ind. 60, 68; 3 Chancery Amer. Dig. 31, 149; 2 Story's Eq. Jur., § 1354 a, p. 788.
In cases where the guardian converts money to his own use, or uses it in his business, or is guilty of gross negligence, he must pay compound interest in yearly, or half yearly, rests. 18 Pick. 6-8; 1 John's Chan. Rep. 627-629.
An agent can not put himself in a position adverse to that of his principal; he can not buy and sell, and loan and borrow. A guardian is a special trustee and agent. 1 Parsons on Cont. pp. 74, 75, 180, 104, 101, 103; 2 Kent Com. 237, 238, and n. b., 240 n. a., and 241.
Where there are new securities on several bonds, both securities are liable. 1 U.S. Eq. Dig. 596, §§ 303, 291, 314, 313, 316, 317, 306, 307, 308.
Where sureties are added to a bond they also are liable, to some extent, as if original sureties, and such liability extends to property subsequently acquired. 5. U.S. Dig. Supplement, §§ 163, 165, p. 104.
As to granting a new trial upon newly discovered evidence, see Myers v. Bromwell, 2 Aiken 407; Richardson v. Backus, 1 Johns 59; Broadhead v. Marshall, 2 W. Blacks, 955.
As to verdicts contrary to evidence, and smallness of damages, &c., see Bacot v. Keith, 2 Bay 466; John v. Scribner, 6 Cown, R. 185; 7 Serg. & Rawle, 457; 2 Hayw. 224; Norris v. Freeman, 3 Will. 38; Jackson v. Sternbergh, 1 Caines 163; Wallace v. Frazier, 2 Nott & McCord, 516.
As to perverse verdicts, see Ash v. Ash, Comb. 357; Freeman v. Price, 1 Younge & Jervis, 402; McConnell v. Hampton, 12 Johns, R. 234; Coffin v. Coffin, 4 Mass. 1.; Cook v. Green, 11 Price 736.
As to new trial granted on account of surprise, see Edie v. East India Co., 1 Wm. Black, 295; Thurtell v. Beaumont, 1 Bingham 339; Le Flaeming v. Simpson, 1 Man. & Ryl. 269; Sargent v. Deniston, 5 Cowen 106; Peterson v. Barry, 4 Binn. 481.
Without the express sanction of the Court, a trustee or guardian will not be permitted, of his own accord, to break in upon the capital of his ward or cestui que trust. Fonteaux v. Lapage, 6 Ia. 131; 2 Story's Eq. Jur. §§ 1353-1355, p. 35; Walker v. Wetherell, 6 Ves. 474; 2 Leading Ca. in Eq. part 2, top p. 169.
H. C. Newcomb, J. S. Harvey and John Tarkington, for the appellee.
(2.) By counsel for appellee: Even a father will be entitled to an allowance out of the estate of his child for its support, where he is unable properly to support it. Haase v. Roehrscheid, 6 Ind. 66; 2 Kent's Com. mar. 191, and notes d. e.; 2 Barb. Ch. R. 375; 2 Ashmead 332; Cooper's Eq. R. 52; 14 Ves. 499.
Suit upon a guardian's bond. Issues of fact; trial and judgment. No demurrers present questions upon the pleadings. No exceptions present questions upon the rulings of the Court during the progress of the trial.
A motion for a new trial was made and overruled. The motion was made after judgment was entered, but at the same term, and was continued under advisement to the next term. There was no error in this. The correctness of the finding upon the evidence heard, as that evidence was all admitted without objection, and tends to sustain the finding, can not be here denied. The cause was tried under the code. But one of the grounds for a new trial was newly discovered evidence. The correctness of the ruling of the Court below upon this point may be considered here, and decided upon its real merits. To justify the granting of a new trial upon the ground we are now examining, it is held, as the general rule, that the newly discovered evidence must be such as could not have been obtained on the trial had by reasonable diligence; that it must not be merely cumulative, and must not be for purposes of impeachment of witnesses examined. Tested by these rules, it will at once be manifest, on examining the record, that the action of the Court below on the motion for a new trial, for the cause assigned, was not erroneous.
Two questions of law are raised and argued by counsel, which will be considered and decided. The ward, who now sues her guardian on his bond for wasting her estate, was supported by that guardian from infancy to the sixteenth year of her age. In that support, the guardian used the interest and a portion of the principal of her personal estate, without having first obtained the direction of the proper Court. He set up that use in defense against this suit, and the defense was allowed. It is claimed, on the part of appellant: 1. That the guardian can not have a credit for such expenditure in any suit, in any Court. 2. That if he can, it will not be allowed in a suit on the bond.
If the credit is allowable at all, the account can be taken and the credit allowed, under our present practice, in a suit on the bond. The State v. Strange, 1 Ind. 538; The State ex rel. v. Hughes, 15 id. 104. Can such a credit be allowed? As a question of power, without regard now to the propriety of the allowance in this particular case, can the Court make it in any case?
Blackstone says, Book 1, p. 462, that,
What is the obligation of a father, touching the support of his child?
Walker, in his American Law, 4 Ed., p. 258, says that there is no legal obligation, at common law, on the part of the father to support his infant children.
It is laid down in Blackstone, Book 1, p. 449, that ...
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