Case ID: ky-op_5/html/0059-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jas. A. Edwards v. Jno. B. Carter, etc.
    APPEAL PROM GRAVES COURT OP COMMON PLEAS.
    March 7, 1872.
    Guardian and Ward — Sale of Infants’ land — Failure of Purchaser to Execute Bond.
    If the money to which the appellant was entitled, was otherwise secured, the failure of the purchaser to execute hond does not affect the sale.
    Same.
    A sale of an infant’s land cannot he impeached in a collateral proceeding.
   Opinion of the Court by

Judge Lindsay:

Neither the judgment, nor the sale, deed, conveyance made pursuant thereto, in the proceeding by the statutory guardian of appellant for the sale of the land in controversy, were void. The facts set out in the petition gave the court jurisdiction. The' necessary bond was executed to secure to the infants the proceeds of the sale of their lands. The report of the commissioners was in substantial conformity to the law. The failure of the purchaser to execute the bonds required to be given by the judgment did not necessarily render the sale invalid.

If the money to which appellant was entitled could be and was otherwise.secured it is difficult to perceive any valid reason for attaching to the failure of the purchaser to execute those bonds the penalty of having his purchase treated as a nullity.

The conveyance executed in obedience to the order of the court was a sufficient confirmation of the sale.

L. Anderson, for appellant.

Williams, Tice & Miller, for appellees.

We are not prepared to decide from the facts before us that because the land was purchased by the statutory guardian he held the title in trust for his ward, but even if such be the case, his vendees can not be compelled.to surrender their possession in a proceeding like this.

. The sale as before stated was not void, and it can not be impeached in a collateral proceeding.

Judgment affirmed.