Court Opinion

ID: 7875653
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-08 21:08:43.463866+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:31:23.151964
License: Public Domain

The Court
held otherwise. The reason for the ruling was, that the insufficiency of the personal estate to pay the debts supplied the jurisdictional ground upon which the order to sell the real estate rested; that the petitioning bank had not been made a party to the cause by service upon it of notice of the intention to present the petition; that this was the first opportunity it had to be heard in presenting its interests in the matter; and that inasmuch as if the bank had appeared and objected to the issuance of an order upon the original petition, upon the same ground as now appears, the burden would have been upon the executor to sustain the jurisdictional fact, to-wit, the insufficiency of the personal estate, now, when the bank does appear, the burden must still rest upon the executor to sustain the jurisdiction.
The court, therefore, directed that the executor should proceed with proof sustaining the account heretofore filed, by which the insufficiency of the personal estate is alleged to appear.