Court Opinion

ID: 7867101
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-08 19:46:26.074277+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:31:07.487788
License: Public Domain

De Blanc, J.
The tutor answered the appeal praying an amendment as to the minor’s claim. To grant his application we would have to amend the judgment to the detriment of other appellees, and it is well settled that as between co-appellees the judgment appealed from cannot be amended. 11 A. 545; 15 A. 448; 20 A. 307; 21 A. 719.
The claim of Crane & Co. was properly classed by the lower court. Property belonging to them had been sold as the property of the succession. It matters very little whether the proceeds of that sale were mixed with the funds of the succession, or whether the effects of Crane & Co. were confusedly sold with a mass of other effects.
They have claimed and proved that among the funds which the executor is about to distribute — the price of their property is included and that they are entitled to it, not as creditors of the deceased, but as owners of the property which was theirs when sold, which never passed to the succession, and can in no way be subjected to the payment of its debts.
They are entitled to the rank fixed in the judgment of homologation, not because of the preference granted in an ex parte proceeding, but because of the recognition of their title to the property, by a com-" petent court, in a regular suit, tried contradictorily with the executor.
Crane, Breed & Co. are not attempting to enforce any privilege or right which affected any property of the succession of Cook, or which attached to any of the proceeds of its sale.
They are not asking a share of the money collected for and belonging to said succession, but they are simply asking that out of the sum about to be distributed there shall be deducted the acknowledged price of their acknowledged property.
Their demand is just.

Judgment affirmed.