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74 Mo. 154

Wolff v. Schaeffer

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided October 15, 1881

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1881-10-15

Louis Court of Appeals. Louis Wolff died leaving a will, by which he devised the residue of his estate, after the payment of specified legacies, to his widow, Dorothea. On the 25th of July, 1872, Christian Staehlin qualified as executor, giving a bond in the sum of $60,000, with Henry B. Berning and others as sureties, and immediately took into his possession assets of the estate to the value of $45,993.89.

Relies on State ex rel. Bothrick v. Potter

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Affirmed · Decided 1881-10-15

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Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1925

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Sherwood, C. J.

¶1The St. Louis court of appeals took the correct view of the effect of the opinion of this court in the State v. Potter, 63 Mo. 212. There is nothing in this case to indicate that the bond was signed conditionally, or delivered as an escrow.

¶2The liability of the surety in this bond has been incidentally touched upon in the case of the State v. Berning, ante, p. 87. The breach of the first bond given by Staehlin we regard as a continuing breach, commencing with the first bond, and continuing down through the time covered by the second bond; a breach for which the sureties on both bonds may be held to answer.

¶3The other questions arising in the case are fully and satisfactorily discussed by the court of appeals, per Judge Bakewell, and we affirm the judgment.

Norton and Ray JJ., concur; Hough and Henry* JJ.., concur in the result
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