Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court November 26, 1902 (Long v. Copeland)

Losing, J.

It is too late to question the rule laid down in Conant v. Kendall, 21 Pick. 36, that a creditor of a ward can maintain an action on the bond given by the guardian. But in that case this court left open the question whether the creditor could maintain such an action before he had reduced his debt to judgment; 21 Pick, at p.