Mississippi Supreme Court, 1881

Conwill v. Livingston

Conwill v. Livingston
Mississippi Supreme Court · Decided January 17, 1881
2 Miss. Dec. 549

Conwill v. Livingston

Opinion of the Court

Opinion.

Per curiam:

Citation on the final account of the appellants’ testator, administrator of one Livingston, ivas served personally on the distributees alone, who were infants. There was no appointment of a guardian ad litem for them.

The service on the infants was unauthorized by law and amounted to nothing. It was essential that a guardian ad litem should be appointed, and the decree is, therefore, void. See Burrus v. Burrus, 56 Miss. 92.

Decree affirmed.

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