Opinion ID: 1679892
Heading Depth: 1
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Heading: Defendants-Appellees' Use of Estate Funds.

Text: Appellant suggests that Defendants themselves had unclean hands because they had used for their personal benefit funds which were entrusted to them as executors of their mother's estate. Such assertion is without merit. The propriety of the proceedings of the probate court in the administration of Helon F. Knapp's estate was not before the trial Court for review in this case. Likewise, the doctrine of unclean hands is confined in application to matters related or connected with the controversy before the court, which here involved only title to the property in question. Daniel v. Haggins, 286 Ala. 409, 240 So.2d 660 (1970). See, also, Sterling Oil of Oklahoma, Inc. v. Pack, 291 Ala. 727, 287 So.2d 847 (1973).