Branner v. Nichols
Supreme Court of Kansas
1. Ejectment — Administrator's Sale — Partnership Estate-Fraud — Estoppel. In an action to recover the possession of real estate sold by an administrator to pay debts of a partnership, and fraudulently bought in by him, and for rents and profits of the same received by the defendant for thirteen years, the latter averred in his answer a settlement of the partnership estate, of which he was surviving partner and administrator, an accounting and final discharge from his trust…
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1. Ejectment — Administrator's Sale — Partnership Estate-Fraud — Estoppel. In an action to recover the possession of real estate sold by an administrator to pay debts of a partnership, and fraudulently bought in by him, and for rents and profits of the same received by the defendant for thirteen years, the latter averred in his answer a settlement of the partnership estate, of which he was surviving partner and administrator, an accounting and final discharge from his trust in the probate court, and the payment of over $3000 to the plaintiff, who was one of the heirs of the deceased partner.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Smech, J.:
The first error assigned is the refusal of the court below to strike out certain parts of the reply. They charge fraudulent conduct by Branner in foreclosing a mortgage securing a note for $500, *370belonging to the partnership estate on land in Wabaunsee county, obtaining title in his own name, selling the same, and failing to report the transaction to the probate court; and, again, that in 1877, there was in Branner’s hands, as administrator of the partnership estate, three promissory notes aggregating over $7000, secured by mortgage on lot 167…
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