Mathew Johnson seeks "a settlement of his guardianship" and a reimbursement of $2500, which he spent on a "lot in West Nashville ... on which is situated, a neat & comfortable little dwelling house." He represents that he is the guardian of his thirty-seven-year-old son-in-law, Thomas B. Craighead Jr., "who had been previously found & declared to be a lunatic or person of unsound mind." He further reports that Thomas's wife, Tennessee, and his twelve-year-old daughter, Virginia, "are the only persons entitled to the estate of the said Thomas B. Craighead, which estate is quite large consisting chiefly of a large sugar plantation & negroes in the state of Louisiana," which has an annual income of $10,000 or more. Purporting that his daughter and granddaughter had "no suitable house or residence & no good position in which the child could properly be educated," the petitioner "deemed it best to purchase a house for them." Johnson cites that he "paid for the property out of his own means, intending to have the same allowed in his settlements as guardian," but he reveals that "said Court has no power ... to allow said purchase money ... & give him credit therefor in his settlements." He prays that "he be allowed as guardian ... $2500 & interest & credited in his settlements with the same & he be allowed to retain that sum out of said estate to re-imburse him."
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Archives
