Court Opinion

ID: 9417406
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 20:14:12.745884+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:21:41.961794
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Field,
dissenting.
I am unable to assent to the judgment of this court, as I do not agree to the conclusion reached on the (Question of fact as to the previous concurrence of Fuller, one of the trustees of the property, in the notice of sale. He testifies that he never authorized the sale; never heard of it; nor did Smith ever speak to him on the subject until two weeks after it had taken place, when Smith came to his house and got him, then sick in bed, to sign the deed. He. also testifies that the signature “John F. Fuller” appended to the notice of sale is not in his handwriting.
Under these circumstances I cannot but conclude that Mr. Smith is mistaken in his recollection, and that he has confounded Fuller’s subsequent assent to the execution of the deed with a supposed previous assent to the notice of sale.
*321Fuller’s ratification of the proceedings by joining in the deed does not remove, in my judgment, this objection, as it is evident that it was executed in ignorance of all the circumstances under which the sale took place. I agree with the court below that, “ if a trustee can ratify the acts of his co-trustee, it can only be upon consultation with him, and upon full information as to all the facts; ” and it is clear that this information was wanting in the present case.