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20 Ohio C.C. Dec. 808

Murr v. Murr

Hamilton Circuit Court

Decided November 15, 1907

Hamilton Circuit Court · decided 1907-11-15

<p>PARTITION.</p> <p>Swing, Ciffen and Smith, JJ.</p> <p>Minoe’s interests in Partition Proceedings Protected as against Adult Co-parceners.</p> <p>Where adult coparceners conceal irom an infant coparcener the true value' of the land, and after tailing it at its appraised value sell it at a greatly enhanced figure, they will be required to account to the minor, for the profits thus derived and the court is not bound to apportion the judgment among the joint wrongdoers, but may render a general judgment against, all th.e defendants.</p>

Decided 1907-11-15

GIFFEN, J.

¶1The plaintiff in her original petition did not seek to set aside the proceedings in tbe partition suit, because the rights of an innocent purchaser had intervened; but she asked that the defendants be required to-account to her for the excess of the proceeds _ of subsequent sale to this purchaser over the amount of the appraisement, at which one of the defendants elected to take the premises.

¶2The ground of the action was fraud on the part of the defendants in concealing from the plaintiff, an infant, the true value of the premises ; and after selling the same a few months after the partition proceedings for nearly three' times their appraised value, dividing the proceeds of sale to the exclusion of plaintiff. While the testimony upon this issue was not, and rarely is, direct and positive, yet the cir-' cumstanees were quite as convincing, and warranted the court in finding for the plaintiff.

¶3The court is not required to apportion the amount of the judgment among joint wrongdoers, and hence the judgment for the full amount against all the defendants was not erroneous.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

Swing and Smith, JJ., concur.
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