Court Opinion

ID: 6737581
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 23:19:43.315107+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:50.955661
License: Public Domain

WILLIAMS, J.
This cause comes into this court on appeal from the Williams Common Pleas. After the cause was tried and submitted upon the evidence, George Planson filed a motion to dismiss the appeal. We are disposed to treat the motion as coming too late and the right to have the cause dismissed for want of ap-pealability, if it exists, to have been waived by going to trial without objection. The power of the court to dismiss an appeal because the cause is not appealable exists so long as it retains jurisdiction of the cause. Drake et v. Tucker, 83 OS. 97; State ex Lander v. Prestion, 93 OS. 423.
This action was brought by George Plan-son, executor of J. A. Cuquel, deceased, against Charles E. Scott, administrator of Amanda Cuquel, deceased. The lower court ordered and adjudged that the remainder of the fund of $2,610 after the payment of costs, etc., be paid to Planson for distribution under the terms of the last will and testaments of J. A. Cuquel. Prom this judgment, Scott appealed.
Attorneys — A. L. Gebhard for Planson; Chas. E. Scott and David A. Webster for Scott; all of Bryan.
The Court of Appeals held:
1. Anna Cuquel received the $2,610 in question thru a bequest gotten thru a relative in California who left his real property to his wife to be sold and divided after her death, she died in 1918. Anna Cuquel died intestate in 1895, J. A. Cuquel died testate in 1925.
2. In a proceeding in California, it was adjudged that the money be paid to the personal representative of Amanda Cuquel. Amanda Cuquel never having had any children, left no issue, the sole heirs and only next of kin were her brothers and sisters.
3. The question for determination is whether the money in the hands of the administrator of the estate of Amanda Cuquel, deceased, shall be paid the executor of J. A. Cuquel or to her next of kin.
4. It is a well settled rule of law when one leaves his real property, to one for life to be sold and divided after one’s death,' the doctrine of equitable conversion applies and the same will be treated as personal property.
5. The money received can only be treated as personal property. The fund in the hands of the administrator should therefore be distributed' as personal property and the distribution thereof is regulated by the law of the domicile of Amanda Cuquel, who died domiciled in Ohio. Swearingen v. Morris, 14 OS. 424.
6. It is very elear that under sections 8474-78 GC., J. A. Cuquel, as relict of the intestate, was at the time of his decease, entitled to all the personal property of the estate of his deceased wife entitled to distribution. Planson, as personaL representative of J. A. Cuquel, deceased, is therefore entitled to receive all the' money which is in the hands of the defendant administrator and subject to distribution.
Decree accordingly.
(Richards, Lloyd, JJ., concur.)