IN RE GUARDIANSHIP OF PLOWMAN


398 S.W.2d 721 (1966)

In the Matter of the GUARDIANSHIP OF Clara B. PLOWMAN, N.C.M.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

January 14, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Curtis Pope, Memphis, of counsel, Pope, Sayle & Douglas, Memphis, for Clara B. Plowman, plaintiff in error.

Charles A. Walt, Memphis, for Earl E. Plowman, Guardian, defendant in error.


WHITE, Justice.

The sole issue involved in this appeal is whether the husband is obligated to account to his wife during coverture for the rents and profits collected by him from real property owned by them as tenants by the entirety. The trial court held that he was not obligated to so account and we affirm for the reasons appearing herein.

Under the common law, where husband and wife are jointly seized of an estate in land, the husband during the marriage...

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