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71 Tex. 603

Wilson v. Demander

Texas Supreme Court

Decided October 30, 1888

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1888-10-30

Tried below before Hon. Dyer Moore, Special District Judge, sitting in place of Hon. H. Teichmuller. Appellant, as adminstrator of Nelson Burch, brought this suit against appellee to vacate a deed made by his intestate to appellee, and to have the land so conveyed adjudged to be assets in the hands of the administrator for the payment of debts.

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Decided 1888-10-30

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Acken, Judge.

¶1Appellant brought this suit as administrator of Kelson Burch, to vacate a deed made by his intestate to appellee, and to have the land adjudged to be assets in his hands, upon the grounds that the deed was without consideration, and was made with intent to defraud the creditors of Burch. It was alleged that Burch was utterly insolvent at the time he executed the deed to appellee, and that his estate was insolvent.

¶2Appellee answered by general demurrer and special exceptions, upon the ground that an administrator can not maintain a suit to set aside and vacate a conveyance made by his intestate, upon the ground of fraud.

¶3The demurrers were sustained and the suit dismissed, from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

¶4The proposition that an administrator can not maintain a suit to set aside a deed made by his intestate, upon the ground that such deed was fraudulent as to the creditors of the intestate, is too well settled, we think, to demand or justify the discussion of it now.

¶5However fraudulent the conveyance may have been, the intestate was bound by it, and could not himself have maintained the suit to set it aside. Administrators can bring suits *606in like manner as their intestates could have done. If the intestate could not have maintained the suit, the administrator can not. (Rev. Stats., art. 1201; Avery v. Avery, 12 Texas, 53; Connell v. Chandler, Admr., 13 Texas, 5; Seawell v. Lowry, 16 Texas, 50; Hunt v. Butterworth, 21 Texas, 141; Hoeser v. Kraeka, 29 Texas, 450.)

¶6We think the judgment of the court below is correct, and should be affirmed.

¶7Affirmed.

¶8Opinion adopted October 30, 1888.

¶9Stayton,

¶10Chief Justice.

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