Glemser v. Glemser

5 Ohio N.P. 170
CourtCourt of Common Pleas of Ohio, Hamilton County
DecidedDecember 21, 1897
StatusPublished

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Bluebook
Glemser v. Glemser, 5 Ohio N.P. 170 (Ohio Super. Ct. 1897).

Opinion

SAMUEL W. SMITH, J.

The petition in this ease states that the plaintiff, Ella M. Glemser, was eighteen years of age on the 23rd day of September, 1895, and that Thekla M. Glemser is a minor, aged thirteen years; that said plaintiffs and the defendant Charles E. Glemser are children of Frederick Glemser, deceased, who died on the 19th day of April, 1882; that Frederick Glemser left a will, which was duly probated by the probate court of this county, on the 26th day of April, 1882; that the defendant, Marie Glemser, is the widow of Frederick Glemser; that the defendant, Charles E. Glemser, is the son of Frederick Glemser by a former wife, and that after her death the said Frederick Glemser married Marie Glemser, the defendant herein; and that plaintiffs are the children of said Frederick Glemser and the defendant Marie Glemser; that under the will, of the said Frederick Glemser, Marie Glemser was appointed guardian, in April, 1882, of the plaintiffs, and that she has always acted as such guardian up to the present time. The petition then sets out that Frederick Glemser Was the owner in fee simple, of two pieces of property in the city of Cincinnati, situated on the east side of Elm street north of Fifteenth street; that, in addition to the real estate left by said Frederick Glemser, there was personal property also left by him, amounting to about $20,000; and that the estate of said Frederick Glemser'is still unsettled, but all the debts of the said Frederick Glemser have been raid.

The petition further states that on or about the 16th day of December, 1893, the defendant Charles E. Glemser, filed his petition in the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county, against the plaintiffs and against the defendant Marie Glemser, both as guardian and as widow of said Frederick Glemser, setting up that he had a lawful right to be seized in fee simple of one undivided third part of the real estate situated on the east side of Elm street, subject to the dower of the said Marie Glemser; and prayed for a partition of said property; that afterward proceedings were had on said petition; that an answer was filed in behalf of the plaintiffs herein by the said Marie Glemser, their guardian, but no defense was in fact made in their behalf by said guardian, and that the rights of the plaintiffs in said partition suit were in no way represented; that on or about the 21st day of June, 1894, a decree was entered in said cause, finding- that the plaintiff Charles E. Glemser had a legal right to fhe undivided one-third of said real estate, and was entitled to hold the same in severalty, and that the plaintiffs in this case were tenants in common with him, each of one undivided third interest in ■ said premises, and an order was made that the defendant Marie Glemser be endowed of one-third part of said premises, and that subject to her said dower, partition of said estate be made, and that an order issue to the sheriff of this county, commanding him by the oaths of three freeholders of the vicinity, who were appointed commissioners for that purpose, that he set off to the said Marie Glemser her dower, and to the plaintiff Charles E. Glemser, and the defendants in said action, the plaintiffs herein, their piroportions of said estate in severalty, and that if said commissioners should find that said premises could not be divided without manifest injury thereto, it was ordered that they appraise the same both subject to and free from the dower of said Marie Glemser. That (hereafter a writ of partition was issued to said sheriff, and on or about the 15th day of September, 1894, no division having been made,the commissioners appraised the parcel of land first above described at $13,600, and the second at $10,500, free from the dower of said Marie Glemser; that they did not appraise, nor did they return the appraisement thereof subject to the dower of said Marie Glemser, as provided in said decree for partition.

The petition then states that on the 17th day of October, 1894, the court caused a decree to be entered, confirm[171]*171ing the report of the commissioners, and finding that the premises could not be divided by metes and bounds without injury thereto, and that the appraisement of said premises free from the dower of the said Marie Glemser was in all respects in conformity to law, and did approve and confirm the same; that neither of the parties elected to take the premises at the appraisement, and it was ordered that the said premises be sold on the premises on the terms of one-third cash, and the balance in equal payments in one and two years, bearing six per cent, interest, and secured by mortgage on the premises; that the sale was thereafter duly held on the 3rd day of December, 1894, at public outcry, and that both,pieces of property were, struck off ~amF sold to the defendant Marie Glemsgr, the first parcel for $9,520, and the second parcel for $7000., total, $16,520.

The petition then further states 'that the purchaser, Marie Glemser, did not pay to the sheriff the said purchase money, or any part thereof; that all the defendants knew that Marie Glemser was the guardian of these plaintiffs herein, and that with full knowledge of said' facts all the defendants agreed among themselves, that the sheriff should make his return of the sale without any money having been actually paid to him by said purchaser Marie Glemser, and that said sale should be confirmed, and a deed executed and delivered to her, without the actual payment to the sheriff of any money whatever; that afterwards the defendant, the Gilt Edge Building & Loan Company,agreed to loan to the purchaser, Marie Glemser, the sum of $9,000 to be secured by her by a mortgage on said property, for the purpose of paying off the proportion of the fund to which the said Charles E. Glemser and the dower claim of said Marie Glemser would amount, the dower claim of the said Marie Glemser being consumed by judgment liens against herinterest in the said property; and that it was agreed between the Gilt Edge Building Association, the said Marie Glemser, Charles E. Glemser, and her judgment creditors, that the money received on the mortgage, by the purchaser, from the Gilt Edge Building &. Loan Com-' pany, should be distributed in payment of these claims — $875.20 due for 'taxes, the costs,.and also $265.20 to the attorney for the plaintiff Charles E. Glemser,iii ' said action, all together amounting to $635.23; that in pursuance of said arrangement the said Marie Glemser, the purchaser, defendant in this ease, receipted upon the sheriff’s books for two sums of $3826.88 each, as guardian of the plaintiffs Ella M. and Tbekla M. Glemser, although in fact she had not received the said sum or any part thereof, and that this was done in order to carry out the arrangement heretofore alleged to have been made, and that in pursuance of said arrangement the Gilt Edge Building <fc Loan Company paid oh the costs and taxes, the amount due to the said Charles E. Glemser, and to the creditors of Marie Glemser certain sums, leaving a balance of $1733.34, which was paid over to the attorney of Marie Glemser, W. S. Little. The petition then further sets out that the .purchase of said property by the said Marie Glemser was illegal and void by reason of her being the trustee and guardian of plaintiffs-; tbat she did not receive at any time the sums above set forth, as guardian of plaintiffs, nor any other sum whatever; and that the arrangement by which they were divested of their two thirds interest in said property is fraudulent and void, and that no money whatever was paid in“to the sheriff in said action, and that all of the defendants knew this.

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