Case Name: Ellender W. Trowbridge et al. v. Bridget Cunningham
Court: Kansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Kansas
Decision Date: 1901-12-07
Citations: 63 Kan. 847
Docket Number: No. 12,052
Parties: Ellender W. Trowbridge et al. v. Bridget Cunningham.
Judges: Doster, C. J., Johnston, Smith, Ellis, JJ.
Reporter: Kansas Reports
Volume: 63
Pages: 847–848

Head Matter:
Ellender W. Trowbridge et al. v. Bridget Cunningham.
No. 12,052.
(66 Pac. 1015.)
1. Judicial Sale— Collateral Attack. Objections to methods of appraisement and other steps preliminary to a j'udicial sale may not be made in a collateral proceeding.
2. Descents and Distributions — Creditors of Heirs. The surviving wife inherits one-half of the real estate of her husband and her undivided share may be levied on and sold for the payment of her debts.
Error from Doniphan district court; Vm. I. Stuart, judge.
Opinion filed December 7, 1901.
Division one.
Affirmed.
B. A. Beaver, and James L. Allen, for plaintiffs in error.
J. J. Barker, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Per Curiam:
This was an action to partition a fourteen-acre tract of -land in Doniphan county formerly owned by Safford W. Trowbridge. He died intestate, and this and other real estate descended to his heirs, Ellender W. Trowbridge, his widow, and six children. A judgment was subsequently rendered against the widow in favor of Bridget Cunningham, and an execution was levied On án undivided half of the tract in controversy as the property of the widow. It was sold to the judgment creditor, who brought this proceeding to partition the tract, making' the widow and children parties defendant, and a partition was adjudged.
Objections to the methods of appraisement and other steps preliminary to a sale are not good. They did not render the sale void, and such irregularities can not be questioned in a collateral proceeding. (Paine v. Spratley, 5 Kan. 525; Pritchard v. Madren, 31 id. 38, 2 Pac. 691.)
The surviving wife inherited one-half of the real estate of the husband, and. the undivided share thus allotted to her by the law may be levied on and sold for the payment of her indebtedness. (Gen. Stat. 1901, §2510.) The answer of the widow stated that there had been no division of the estate among the heirs of the decedent, and that while Willis Trow-bridge alleged an arrangement for a division, it only included the children of full age, and was not assented to by all the interested parties. In view of these facts, the testimony rejected, and about which complaint was made, was not material.
The judgment is affirmed.
Doster, C. J., Johnston, Smith, Ellis, JJ.