Badger v. Orr
Badger v. Orr
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiffs cause of action in the court below was founded upon a promise for the payment for services rendered by the plaintiff for the said Keziah Badger, at the request of Michael Badger, her husband, from April, 1906, .until January, 1909. The claim was presented, duly verified, to the administrators, March 14, 1911, and was rejected March 25, 1911. Suit was commenced in the court of common pleas June 21, 1911.
In the second defense the defendants allege that more than two years next before the commencement of this suit, to-wit, on the 5th day of March, 1909, defendants were, by the probate court of said county, duly appointed and qualified as administrators with the will annexed of said Michael Badger, deceased, at which time they gave bond as administrators, and afterwards, within three months after the giving of said bond, they caused notice of their appointment to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in said county for three consecutive weeks. It is further alleged in said second defense that Michael Badger died January 10, 1909, and that the plaintiff’s cause of action, if it ever did accrue, accrued prior to the said 5th day of March, 1909.
For a third defense defendants aver that during the period of thirty-two months, from April, 1906,
For a fourth defense defendants deny that the plaintiff performed services and work to the extent and amount and of the kind and value mentioned in the petition, and aver that whatever services were rendered and work performed for said Keziah Badger by plaintiff, during the time mentioned in said petition, were rendered and performed by said plaintiff at the special instance and request of the guardian of Michael Badger, who was the guardian of the person and estate of said Michael Badger during said period, which services and work were performed by said plaintiff under and by virtue of a contract with said guardian, for all of which services and work rendered by said plaintiff for said Keziah Badger full payment has been made by said guardian to the plaintiff, and nothing whatever is now due said plaintiff from said defendants for any service or work performed for said Keziah Badger.
To this amended answer the plaintiff files reply to the second defense, in which she admits that the defendants were appointed and qualified as administrators of the estate of Michael Badger, and gave bond as such administrators and caused notice of such appointment to be published as alleged in said amended answer. • She admits that Michael Badger died on the 10th day of January, 1909; but the plaintiff says that the appointment of such administrators was revoked by the probate court of Wayne county on August 19, 1909, and Corwin D. Swan was by said court duly appointed and qualified as special administrator of said estate and acted as such from said date until the 19th day of February, 1910, when he was removed and the defendants were reappointed as administrators with the will annexed of said estate.
For reply to the fourth defense .plaintiff says that the services she rendered for the said Keziah Badger were not included in any contract with said guardian for which full payment has been made the plaintiff. She denies that any payment was made to her for any of said services, and she denies that any receipts were given by her to said' guardian for said services or that any receipts given by her under her husband’s name were intended to be, or in fact were, payments in full for said services or in satisfaction thereof, or “that she ever gave said guardian the receipts therefor.
The case was tried to a jury upon issues made up by the petition, the amended answer and the reply to. the amended answer, as shown above, resulting in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for
Error is prosecuted to this court by Perry F. Badger and Ira Badger, administrators with the will annexed of Michael Badger, deceased, as plaintiffs in error, against Maud V. Orr, defendant in error.
Seventeen grounds of error are set forth in the petition in error as reasons for the reversal of the judgment. All the grounds of error set forth in the petition in error are not urged upon our consideration in presenting the case, but several of the grounds are insisted upon as reasons for a reversal of the judgment. One of the principal grounds relied upon by the plaintiffs in error is that the action of the plaintiff below, the defendant in error, was barred by the statute of limitations as to time of bringing suit against administrators, namely, within two years from the time of the appointment of said administrators and the giving of bonds by said administrators.
Section 10746, General Code, among other things, provides: “No executor or administrator, shall be held to answer to the suit of any creditor
It is contended in this case that the plaintiffs in error were appointed administrators with the will annexed of Michael Badger, deceased, on March 5, 1909^ and gave their bond and notice of their appointment within three months of the time of their appointment. On the 14th day of March, 1911, the claim of the defendant in error was presented, duly verified, for an allowance, and on the 25th day of March, 1911, the claim was rejected by said administrators and their rejection thereof endorsed thereon. As we have seen, on the 21st day of June, 1911, suit was brought by the defendant in error against said administrators. It is contended by the defendant in error that this statute of limitations does not control in this case.
The plaintiffs in error were appointed administrators with the will annexed of Michael Badger, deceased, but the appointment of such administrators was revoked by the probate court of said county on August 19, 1909, and one Corwin D.
We can not agree with this contention or construction of the statute, but rather think that Section 10753, General Code, does control. It provides that “When an executor or administrator dies, resigns, is removed or his letters are revoked, or his powers have ceased, without having fully administered the goods and estate of the deceased, and a new administrator of the same estate is appointed, the time allowed to the creditors for bringing their actions shall be enlarged as follows: To so much of the eighteen months provided for the limitation of the action as expired while the former executor or administrator continued in office, must be added so much time after the ap
According to this statute the time intervening between the revoking of the letters of administration and the removal of said administrators from office by the probate court and their subsequent reappointment by the court of common pleas would be deducted from the time allowed by the statute of limitations for bringing suit. The plaintiffs in error were appointed March 5, 1909, and duly qualified as such administrators, but the probate court, on August 19, 1909, revoked said appointment and removed said administrators from their said office and appointed a special administrator. Upon appeal of the case to the court of common pleas that court, on the 19th day of February, 1910, removed said special administrator and reappointed said plaintiffs in error. Now, adding the time they had served before their removal (which is five months and fourteen days) to the time they served after their reappointment and before the bringing of this action, and adding thereto the time of suspension between their removal and the time of the reappointment, the period of time elapsing would be two years and nine days; but, deducting the nineteen days of suspension, the action was brought within the two years allowed by Section 10753, General Code. Therefore, the contention of the plaintiffs in error is not sustained as to the time of bringing the action.
It is also contended by plaintiffs in error that the plaintiff below, being a married woman, living with her husband, at whose home the services were ren
It is contended by the plaintiffs in error that at the time the alleged contract was made by Michael Badger with the defendant in error and her husband, he, Michael Badger, was insane and mentally incompetent to transact any business. A husband is liable for necessaries furnished a wife although he may be insane or incompetent to transact ordinary business (Sections 7997 to 8003, General Code; 2 Beach on Contracts, Section 1408; Clark on Contracts, 2 ed., 181). Therefore, the contention of the plaintiffs in error that Michael Badger was not liable for the support of his wife and for necessaries furnished her can not be sustained.
It is further contended by the plaintiffs in error that for the services rendered by the defendant in error she has been fully paid, and in support of this contention a number of receipts have been pro
It is further contended by the plaintiffs in error that the verdict of the jury in this case is not sustained by the evidence, but is manifestly contrary thereto. In this contention we do not agree with counsel, but on the contrary, after a careful examination of the record, we are unanimous in the opinion that the evidence supports the verdict of the jury and that there is no error in the finding of the jury as to the facts in favor of the defendant in error in support of her claim. We have examined the records with a view of determining whether or not any of the alleged grounds of error set forth in plaintiffs’ petition in error are well taken and we are unanimous in the opinion that they are not.
Therefore, we find no error in the record and the judgment, with the remittitur allowed, is affirmed with costs but without penalty.
Judgment affirmed.
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