Case ID: ky-op_3/html/0319-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Hardin:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James K. Burgess v. Charles Owens' Executrix.
    Demurrer — Allegations of Petition by Distributee for Misappropriation.
    A petition by a distributee, against an executor and another, alleging a combination to defraud the estate by a misappropriation of the assets, in the absence of the disclosure of the plaintiffs interest, not set forth, a demurrer thereto was property sustained.
    APPEAL FROM SCOTT CIRCUIT COURT.
    December 14, 1869.
    
      
      Shepard, for appellant.
    
    
      Robinson, for appellee.
    
   Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hardin:

Although, it is stated in the original and amended petitions that W. O. Burgess was the father of the plaintiff, the fact is also disclosed that he left a will, and that Samuel N. Green was his executor; and if the suggested relationship of the plaintiff to the testator authorized the inference that the plaintiff was his only heir at law, yet it appearing that he left a will, it must also be inferred that he thereby disposed of his estate, and it is not disclosed by any sufficient averment, either that the plaintiff was a devisee under the will, or that the whole estate was not needed to pay debts.

Therefore conceding the right of a distributee to sue the executor and another with whom he may have combined, as alleged in this case, to defraud the estate by a misappropriation of the assets of the estate, upon a sufficient disclosure of the plaintiff’s interest in the estate,^as such an interest was not set forth by either the original or amended petition, the demurrer to the petition was properly sustained.

Wherefore, the judgment is affirmed.