{ "id": 1646598, "name": "Orem v. Moore, Executor; Moore, Executor v. Orem", "name_abbreviation": "Orem v. Moore", "decision_date": "1954-11-01", "docket_number": "5-366; 5-459", "first_page": "146", "last_page": "149", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "224 Ark. 146" }, { "type": "parallel", "cite": "272 S.W.2d 60" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "223 Ark. 459", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1650385 ], "weight": 2, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/223/0459-01" ] }, { "cite": "240 S. 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Orem." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "\u2022George Rose Smith, J.\nFor brevity we consider in\none opinion two separate appeals from a receivership proceeding pending in the Monroe Chancery Court. Robert Moore, as executor of the will of Charles Dill, began the litigation by filing a petition in which he asked that a receiver be appointed to sell the assets of the partnership business known as Dill & Orem Dry Goods Company. Mrs. Clyde Orem, the surviving partner, resisted Moore\u2019s application for a receiver and has appealed from a decree which made the receivership permanent and which ordered a sale of the partnership property. The order of sale was not superseded, however, and during the pend-ency of Mrs. Orem\u2019s appeal the assets were sold by the. receiver. Moore\u2019s subsequent appeal questions two items in the order distributing the proceeds of sale.\nWith respect to Mrs. Orem\u2019s appeal, which was taken under the statutes now superseded by Act 555 of 1953, Moore\u2019s principal contention is that the appeal should, under Ark. Stats., 1947, \u00a7 27-2102, have been perfected within thirty days after the entry of the decree. This contention cannot be sustained. The statute in question fixes a thirty-day limitation for appeals from interlocutory orders appointing a receiver or refusing to wind up a receivership. The decree now under review did more than simply appoint a receiver; it directed the receiver to sell the Dill & Orem assets at public sale. In the interest of justice it is essential that such an order of sale be appealable. As we stated in Davie v. Davie, 52 Ark. 224, 12 S. W. 558, 20 Am. St. Rep. 170: \u201cBut \u2018where the decree decides the rights to the property in contest and directs it to be delivered up, or directs it to be sold, and the complainant is entitled to have it carried into immediate execution, the decree must, be regarded as final to that extent, although it may be necessary for a further decree to adjust the account between the parties. \u2019 For gay v. Conrad, 6 How. 206, 12 L. Ed. 404; Thompson v. Dear, 7 Wall. 342, 19 L. Ed. 94. The appeal is allowed in s.uch cases to prevent irreparable injury pending the suit,\u201d See also, Tucker v. Yell, 25 Ark. 420, 431; Grinnell Co. v. Brewer, 153 Ark. 532, 240 S. W. 424.\nIt is a familiar rule that when property is sold at a judicial sale to one not a party to the suit, a subsequent reversal of the decree does not affect the purchaser\u2019s title. Hadfield v. Kitzmann, 223 Ark. 459, 266 S. W. 2d 801. Consequently one who thinks the order of sale erroneous must be permitted to appeal at once, and, by making a supersedeas bond, prevent the title to the property from being irretrievably transferred. It happens that Mrs. Orem did not supersede this particular sale, but of course that circumstance does not affect the finality of the decree.\nOn its merits Mrs. Orem\u2019s appeal is well taken. We find in the record no justification for Moore\u2019s decision to cast the partnership affairs into receivership. Dill and Mrs. Orem formed their partnership in 1951 and together operated a small dry goods store in Brinkley until Dill\u2019s death on March 8, 1953. Dill\u2019s widow was the residuary beneficiary of his estate, but she made no effort to bring about an immediate liquidation of the business; to the contrary, she preferred to delay the matter. Mrs. Dill died on June 16, 1953, having survived her husband by only about three months. Two weeks later Moore, as Dill\u2019s executor, filed the present petition and obtained the appointment of a temporary receiver, without notice to Mrs. Orem. The store was closed at once by that receiver and has since remained closed.\nThe Uniform Partnership Act states the common law rule that a surviving partner has the right to wind up the partnership affairs. Ark. Stats., \u00a7 65-137. Although the statute permits the legal representative of a partner, \u2018\u2018upon cause shown, \u2019\u2019 to obtain a winding up by the court, not the slightest cause for this procedure is disclosed by this record. Moore\u2019s petition, assigning as cause only a conclusion of law, is demurrable, and the proof does not help the pleading. Quite the opposite, the uncontradicted evidence confirms the wisdom of allowing the surviving partner to liquidate the business. It is clear enough that Mrs. Orem, by reason of her familiarity with the concern, was best fitted to convert the assets into cash. In his testimony Moore in effect concedes Mrs. Orem\u2019s ability, the completeness and accuracy of her account books, and her integrity. His rather lame complaint is that it would be more businesslike to have a disinterested person in charge. The law does not regard this as a sufficient basis for an expensive and protracted receivership. The decree making the receivership permanent and ordering a sale of the property is reversed and the cause is remanded, all costs of the proceeding in this court and in the court below to be assessed against Moore, as executor.\nThe two items questioned by Moore\u2019s appeal do not call for extended discussion. First, the decree gave Mrs. Orem credit for a partnership investment which included among other things the sum of $25, which Mrs. Orem testified she put in the cash register when the store opened for business. This testimony is objected to as a violation of the dead man\u2019s statute, Ark. Const., Sched., \u00a7 2; but since there is nothing to indicate that Dill was present or had anything to do with this evidence to the partnership it cannot be said that the testimony involves a transaction with the decedent. Second, what was apparently an operating loss of $76.71, incurred between the date of Dill\u2019s death and the institution of this litigation, was charged by the decree as a partnership debt. It is now contended that Mrs. Orem should be held personally liable for this amount, upon the theory that after her partner\u2019s death she failed to liquidate the concern as quickly as she should have done. In this interim of less than four months Mrs. Orem seems to have reduced the partnership indebtedness by some two thousand dollars and to have obtained at least one offer of purchase for the assets. We discern no sound reason for holding that there was any unreasonable delay on the part of the surviving partner, especially as Mrs. Dill was aware of what was being done and acquiesced therein. The decree in Case No. 5-459, in so far as the two items now challenged are concerned, is affirmed.", "type": "majority", "author": "\u2022George Rose Smith, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Ted McCastlain, for appellant.", "Sharp & Sharp, for appellee.", "Sharp & Sharp, for appellant.", "Ted McCastlain, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Orem v. Moore, Executor. Moore, Executor v. Orem.\n5-366 5-459\n272 S. W. 2d 60\nOpinion delivered November 1, 1954.\nOpinion delivered November 1, 1954.\nTed McCastlain, for appellant.\nSharp & Sharp, for appellee.\nSharp & Sharp, for appellant.\nTed McCastlain, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0146-01", "first_page_order": 168, "last_page_order": 171 }