Kreimendahl's Estate

Citations

• 17 Pa. Super. 496
• 1901 Pa. Super. LEXIS 343

Syllabus

<p>Guardian and ward — Sale of real estate — Restitution.</p> <p>Where a guardian sells his ward’s real estate under an order of the orphans’ court, but fails to file the bond required by- the order, and to have the sale finally confirmed, and receives the purchase money which he fails to account for to the ward at his majority, and the ward recovers the real estate from the purchaser by an action of ejectment, the orphans’court has jurisdiction to decree that the guardian shall pay back to the purchaser the amount of the purchase money. In such a case the purchaser cannot be charged with laches in not proceeding against the guardian until after the ejectment suit was determined.</p>