Opinion ID: 1917897
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Heading: Dismissal of Appeal as to Receiver.

Text: On March 6 and 8, 1965, plaintiff receiver served a notice of motion to dismiss the appeal as to him. This motion was grounded on his affidavit which alleged among other things these facts: On October 8, 1963, he was appointed receiver of Elda Kay by the circuit court for Dane county in a supplementary proceeding instituted by Henry Butler as a judgment creditor; that the instant partition action in Lafayette county court was instituted and prosecuted by authority of the Dane county circuit court; that subsequent to the partition judgment the receiver received a distributive share of the sales proceeds; that by order entered September 28, 1964, the accounts of the receiver were approved and allowed and he was discharged and the sureties on his bond released; and that he was not served with the notice of appeal until November 8, 1964 [actually November 18, 1964]. By order entered March 17, 1965, this court denied plaintiff receiver's motion without prejudice to his renewing his motion if, in our decision on the merits herein, there is any ruling that he deems prejudicial to him. The plaintiff receiver appeared at oral argument and again renewed his motion to dismiss as to him. We have been presented with no authorities holding that a person standing in a fiduciary relationship such as receiver, trustee, or executor can remove himself from an appeal timely instituted by his own voluntary act of seeking and obtaining his discharge as a fiduciary in proceeding apart from the appeal. Therefore, we again deny plaintiff receiver's motion to dismiss.