Hite v. Reeve

Opinion by

Judge Lindsay:

Although Mrs. Sutherland (now Mrs. Renter) and her children, Elizabeth and Margaret, took the estate conveyed in trust for them to Henry Knipp, subject to existing liens, their right to so much of it as might be left after these liens should be discharged was perfect and absolute.

It does not appear why the entire property was sold at the suit of the lien holders, but if the sale was regular and proper, then they *592were entitled to the surplus purchase money, between $1,500 and $1,800. The children certainly could not be divested of their interest in this surplus by the…