Court Opinion

ID: 9673558
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:14:26.129625+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:22.790683
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The following memorandum was filed February 1, 1966:
Per Curiam
(on motion for rehearing). The Milwaukee Catholic Home for the Aged urges that the mandate be modified so that the probate branch of the county court would retain jurisdiction and determine the claim *245aof the Catholic Home against the several distributees in this action.
The Catholic Home relies upon sec. 318.06 (2) and (10), Stats., and urges that the county court’s probate jurisdiction is broad enough under such section, as well as under sec. 253.10, to permit an adjudication of the controversy in the county court between the Catholic Home and the distributees.
While the county court would clearly have had jurisdiction to adjudicate the issue before the distribution had been made, we believe that it would be inappropriate for the county court to retain jurisdiction and in this action attempt to follow the assets into the hands of the dis-tributees; this is particularly true if some of the dis-tributees were served by publication rather than in person.
We recognize that it is less convenient for the appellant to be obliged to pursue its remedy in separate civil proceedings against the individual distributees, but we deem such course necessary upon the facts of this case.
The motion for rehearing is denied, without costs.