Fowler v. Lilly
| Decision Date | 26 February 1890 |
| Docket Number | 15,282 |
| Citation | 23 N.E. 767,122 Ind. 297 |
| Parties | Fowler, Guardian, v. Lilly et al |
| Court | Indiana Supreme Court |
From the Marion Superior Court.
Judgment affirmed, with costs.
I. H Fowler and A. B. Young, for appellant.
L Jordan, T. L. Sullivan and A. Q. Jones, for appellees.
The appellant instituted this proceeding as guardian of Margaret E. Johnson, an insane person, for partition of real estate. The plaintiff below claimed that his ward was the owner of the undivided one-sixth of the real estate described in the complaint as tenant in common with the defendants, who were alleged to be the owners of the other undivided five-sixths.
The facts found by the court show that in October, 1850, James P. Drake owned a tract of land containing one hundred acres, which was conveyed to him by Griffin Kelly, and wife. Drake platted the land into blocks and lots, among which is block eight (8) in Drake's addition to the city of Indianapolis, which is the property in controversy. Kelly held a purchase-money mortgage covering the one-hundred-acre tract, executed by Drake and wife.
In 1854 Drake sold and conveyed block eight to Allen May. In 1854 Kelly foreclosed his mortgage without making May and wife, who owned and were in possession of block eight parties.
In 1862 the block was sold by the sheriff in pursuance of the decree of foreclosure taken as above, Lewis Jordan and Isaac E. Johnson, husband of the plaintiff's ward, becoming the purchasers. Subsequently Johnson conveyed whatever interest he acquired under the sheriff's deed taken in pursuance of the above purchase to Lewis Jordan. The plaintiff's ward, being the wife of Isaac E. Johnson, did not join in this last conveyance. Her husband having died she now claims to own the undivided one-sixth as his wife. The several defendants claim various lots and subdivisions of block eight through conveyances from J. O. D. Lilly, who purchased the whole block from the widow and heirs of Allen May in March, 1873, for the consideration of $ 10,000.
The conclusion of law stated by the court was to the effect that the appellant's ward had no interest in the land in controversy.
There seems to be no room to question the correctness of the conclusion of the court upon the facts found.
The only claim made on the appellant's behalf to any title or interest in the land in dispute is through the foreclosure sale on the Kelly decree....
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