Watts v. Pond
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 18 — PETITION EQUITY cited Rev. Statutes, (old edition,) page 592 ; 16 B. Mon., 295 ; 18 lb., 781 ; 2 Met., 514. cited Morehead & Brown’s Digest, 808 ; Civil Code, secs. 96, 97.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE BULLITT
delivered the opinion op the court:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court, overruling a motion to quash a sale' of infants’ lands, and the bonds for the purchase money given by the appellants.
The record of the proceeding, in which the sale was ordered, does not show that the commissioners, appointed to report the net value of the infants’ estate, &c., were sworn. Their report states that, in their opinion, “ it would redound to the benefit of the said infants to have said land sold.”
The statute declares that, “ before a court shall have jurisdiction to decjee a…
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