Court Opinion

ID: 7034941
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 06:44:39.836571+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:11:06.803951
License: Public Domain

Hanna, J.
Voris, as administrator de bonis non of. the estate of Tylor, sued Woolery and Woolery on two notes, made payable to Dunlavy, former administrator of said estate.
The facts set up in defense, and proved, are, that at the time of the death of Tylor, Woolery held on him a note for $500, loaned money, secured by mortgage on a certain tract of land. That he gave the note to an attorney to collect, and the mortgage to foreclose, as there was no personal property to pay the debt; that the attorney filed a petition to sell the land, to be made assets for the payment of said mortgage debt first, and other debts in their order, &c.; that it was ordered to be sold on twelve and eighteen months credit; that Woolery became the purchaser, for a sum less than his claim, under the assurance of Dunlavy that his bid should be ci’edited on the said claim, and under the belief that it was a foreclosure; and gave his notes upon the solicitation of Dunlavy, that he wanted them to show the amount that should be credited, &c. The Court, upon receiving and affirming the .sale of said lands, ordered a deed to be made to Woolery, without awaiting or ordering the collection of said notes, or taking any further notice of them. The notes were given in June, 1853, and this suit commenced in December, 1858. Was the defense sufficient?
A. B. Oarlton and P. A. Paries, for appellants.
We are of opinion that the judgment, which was for the plaintiff below, should be reversed. Under the pleadings and facts shown upon the trial, we think the jury should have found for the defendants. It is evident that the Court, which affirmed the sale of the land, regarded the bid thereon as an extinguishment of the purchaser’s claim to that amount; otherwise a deed would not have been ordered without some further action in reference to the purchase money so bidden.
If there had been no agreement with the administrator in reference to the application of said bid; or if the petition to sell had not been presented with reference to the payment of said mortgage debt; or if the. estate had been shown to he insolvent, then there might b.e more plausibility in urging the maintainance of said judgment.
Per Curiam.
The judgment is reversed, with costs. Cause remanded, &c.