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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 958
    KING v. SO. REAL ESTATE CO.
    No. 20039.
    Supreme Court
    On motion to certify.
    Dock. Aug. 3, 1926;
    4 Abs. 541.
    32. ADMINISTRATORS — Does a deceased owner of real estate who has allotted it, incorporated same and owns all stock, leave realty or personalty, and should administrator or distributee maintain action to gain possession thereof,
    Attorneys — Howell, Roberts & Duncan for' King; J. A. Cline, Sawyer & Cummings for Co.; all of Cleveland.
   King contends in the Supreme Court, that when an owner of real estate who plats same into lots, organizes a corporation and who owns the entire stock of the corporation and dies, such property as he died seized of consists of personalty, and an. action to recover possession should be brought by the administrator and not by the distributee.