Case ID: ohio-cir-dec_6/html/0133-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Smith, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

APPEALS — ADMINISTRATORS.
    [Hamilton Circuit Court,
    March, 1897.
    Smith, Cox and Swing, JJ.
    A. L. Dalton, Admr., v. Ruth P. Davis.
    Action by Administrator to Sell Rands or Decedent is Appealable.
    A proceeding by an administrator to sell real estate alleged to have been owned by his intestate at the time of his death, to pay the debts of said estate, is properly brought in the common pleas, and being an action in which neither of the parties is entitled to a trial by jury, is appealable to the circuit court.
    Heard on Motion to dismiss Appeal.
    
      John W. Wolfe and George H. Jackson, for the motion.
    
      W. A. Hicks, contra.
   Smith, J.

We are of the opinion that the motion to dismiss the appeal in this case should be overruled. The proceeding by the administrator to sell real estate alleged to have been owned by his intestate at the time of his death, to pay the debts of said estate, was properly brought in the court of common pleas, and it being an action in which neither of the parties was entitled to a trial by jury, it was appealable to the circuit court. In addition to this, other equitable claims are set up by some of the defendants, by answer and cross-petition, and they were appealable. The case was appealed by the administrator who had given bond in this state as such, as found by the common pleás, without giving an appeal bond as the statute provides may be done. Other defendants appealed and gave bond. The case is properly in this court, and the motion is overruled.