Court Opinion

ID: 9811971
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:34:41.645017+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:23:31.267636
License: Public Domain

Bukwell, J.
(dissenting): I do not think the act (Laws 1887, chapter 214) was intended to apply to cases such as this. There being no way to ascertain the cash value of the estate of Mrs. Alice Owens, the effect of the decree is-merely to convert real estate into money, and not to make any partition whatever of the city lots described in the pleadings or of the funds arising from their sale. I do not think it was the intention of the Legislature to compel these defendants, and others in like circumstances, to run the risks necessarily attendant upon the investment of the fund, or else settle with the particular tenant.' I know of no rule by which the fund can be divided, and I do not believe the act applies, unless there can be a division of it according to some rule of calculation recognized by the law. It does not seem to me reasonable to suppose that an act, passed evidently to promote the partition of property, should be called into service to effect the conversion of real estate into money, when no division of the money can be made by the law.