Fowler v. Evans
Fowler v. Evans
Opinion of the Court
We are of opinion that there is no error in the judgment for which it ought to be reversed. It appears from the proceedings of the Probate Court of Montgomery county, contained in the statement of facts, that commissioners were appointed at the April Term of that court to make partition of the league of land in Montgomery county, belonging to the estate of J. H.'
Jesse Evans, the appellee’s intestate, purchased from Powell, who was in possession, holding under the heirs of Cummings, and received a deed from Powell on the 11th of February, 1847. It is shown that Evans paid the purchase money, and it is not shown that he had any actual notice of the claim of title of the appellants. Under these circumstances, we are of opinion that the proceedings in the Probate 'Court of Montgomery county, 'subsequent to the confirmation of the partition of the land lying in Montgomery county, cannot be held to affect the appellee’s intestate with notice of the title of the appellants.
We think it may well be doubted whether every judgment of the County Court for costs, arising in the partition of estates, can be held to be such a final judgment as constitutes a lien upon all the real estate which the person against whom the judgment Was rendered may possess in the county. Under the probate law of 1840, the share of each distributee was liable for the portion of the costs of the partition adjudged against the distributee, but this could not be held to be a lien upon all the real estate of the distributee in the county, attaching to lands in the hands of third persons, purchasers from the distributee, so long as executions.Were regularly issued upon the judgment for costs. We think the most that can be said in the present case is, that Jesse Evans would have been chargeable with notice of whatever was shown by the decree confirming the partition of the land in Montgomery county. This decree contained, no judgment for costs; and we think he was not bound to examine all the subsequent proceedings of the Probate Court concerning the partition of land in
The judgment of the court below is affirmed.
Judgment affirmed,
Reference
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- J. W. Fowler and another v. W. F. Evans, Adm'r, &c.
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