Brandon v. Mckinney
Brandon v. Mckinney
Opinion of the Court
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We have carefully examined and considered the somewhat voluminous and complicated record in this case, and are of the opinion that the learned trial judge properly disposed of the case in his opinion of March 22, 1909, and subsequent opinions. The decree may well be affirmed on his opinions.
The controlling question is whether the real estate of
The judgments entered against some of the parties after the election to reconvert bound their interest in the real estate, and the sales on the judgments passed the title of those parties to the purchasers. The learned judge correctly held that the reconversion dated from April 7,1906, and that judgments entered thereafter against the parties became a lien on the property.
There is no merit in the contention that the court below was without jurisdiction to entertain the bill for partition until the title of the parties had been determined in an action of ejectment. The question was recently before
The question raised by the appellants as to the sufficiency of the averments in the bill must be ruled against them. The objection now made was not raised until after the testimony had been given before the chancellor, and the facts found and a decree made by him. The parties treated the bill as if it contained all the necessary averments, and produced testimony to sustain and defeat the issue thus made. It is now too late for the appellants to complain of the insufficiency of the pleadings.
The decree is affirmed.
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- Real estate — Conversion by will — Reconversion—Intention—Acts of parties — Judgments. 1. While the intention on the part of the persons beneficially interested to reconvert into realty real estate of a decedent which had by will been converted into personalty must clearly and unmistakably appear, yet a direct election is not necessary. Any act or acts which disclose plainly an intention to hold the real estate as such are sufficient. 2. Where it appears that the parties beneficially interested in real estate directed by a testator to be sold, took control of the real estate the year following testator’s death, leased the premises for oil and gas purposes, issued pipe line division orders for oil procured from the leases and made a deed granting a right of way to a railroad company across the premises, such acts are properly held to constitute an election as of the date of the deed to the railroad company, and judgments entered thereafter against the parties became a lien on the property. Equity — Jurisdiction—Conversion—Written evidence — Questions of court. 3. A court of equity has jurisdiction to decree partition where the issue is a question of reconversion and this depends upon evidence in writing disclosing the intention of the parties. Appeals, C. P. — Objection—Time for objection — Insufficiency of pleadings. 4. It is too late for a party on appeal to complain for the first time of the insufficiency of the averments in a bill in equity, after the testimony had been given before the chancellor and the facts found and a decree made.