Lewis v. Adams
Lewis v. Adams
Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
By his will W. R. Marion gave to his wife some personal property and a slave Dave, directing, in the event of her marriage, a sale of the property and a distribution of the proceds between her
Their petition, concurred in by the mother, was dismissed, and we think erroneously.
By the conversion of Dave into land the infant legatees were equitably substituted to a correspondent equity in the land.
Lindsey is estopped to deny that interest in the land. His fiducial relation and the trifle he paid make his purchase at the decretal sale is constructively fraudulent, and entitle his wards to a restitution of their portion of the land, or portion of the price he sold it for. As it was the duty of his vendees, immediate or remote, to look into his title and they must be presumed to know that it was voidable, and cannot claim to have been bona fide purchasers without notice of the equity of the appellants, who have a right to avoid all the sales unless.on a judicial settlement with their guardian, ample justice can be assured to them in some other way.
The circuit court, therefore, erred in dismissing the petition, and that judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings.
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