Shealy v. Toole, 64 Ga. 519

Shealy v. Toole

64 Ga. 519 | Ga. | 1880

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was a claim case, on the trial of which the jury found the property subject to they?./», levied thereon.

1. The main ground of error insisted on here, which this court can consider in the state of the record before us, is whether the court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the claimant’s equitable plea filed in the case, the substance of which, is, that the claimant purchased a tract of land from the plaintiff in y?./»., and that the plaintiff has obtained a judgment against him for the balance of the purchase money due therefor, and had the land levied on to satisfy the same; that he, the claimant, took $1,070.00 of his ward’s money and paid it to the plaintiff in part payment of his own debt for the land, and that the plaintiff knew that it was his ward’s money when he received it in part payment of the claimant’s individual debt for the land; that the plaintiff is insolvent, and that his ward is equitably entitled to have the land, or that it be sold and his ward be paid the $1,070.00 out of the proceeds thereof, with a prayer that the court enjoin the sale of the land as his property, under they?./», issued against him for his individual debt, until a proper decree can be had in the case. There was no error in sustaining the demurrer to the claimant’s equitable plea, inasmuch as he seeks to prevent the sale of his own land by interposing a claim therefor as guardian for his ward, who had no title to the land, on the ground that he had committed a breach of trust as such guardian, by appropriating $1,070.00 of his Avard’s money in his hands to the payment of his individual debt due to Toole, in part *521payment for the land claimed, without offering to pay thé balance of the purchase money due therefor, for which the judgment was obtained now being enforced against it.

2. There was no error in the refusal of the court to allow the claim case to be amended by making Susan Y. Shealy, by her next friend, Elbert A. Shealy, a party claimant in lien of Martin L. Shealy, in accordance with his petition, for that purpose. Code, §8480.

Let the judgment of the court below be affirmed.