Robert Edmunds, next friend of minors John Harrison and Mary Harrison, requests a full account of the minors' trust estate and the appointment of a new trustee. Mary E. Harrison, the minors' mother, died in 1842, and their father, Richard B. Harrison, died in 1854. The children are "entitled to a considerable personal estate" from their parents' estates and land from their grandfather; the said property "vested in John Harrison, Senior ... as trustee." Edmunds asserts that Harrison Sr. has mismanaged the trust estate and has refused to "give bond and security for the faithful discharge of his trusts." He further states that the children are due the proceeds from the sale of land. Edmunds reports that said trust estate includes a group of nine slaves. Since the children "own no land to work their slaves on," the petitioner maintains the slaves should be sold. He also charges that said trustee does not devote "any portion of his time and attention" to the slaves held in trust. Therefore, the petitioner prays that a full account of said slaves be made; that the minors' "entire estates" be converted "in the shape of bonds with interest payable" to the Harrison children annually; and that John Harrison Sr. be removed as trustee and "some other fit and proper person appointed in his stead."
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
