Pettit v. Norman
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 100 — Action by G. Clarence Pettit, &c. Against Joanna Nob- ’ man, a Lunatic, and Her Committee, por the Sale of Real Estate Jointly Owned by Her and the Plaintiffs. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, CHY. DIV. NO. 1,-SHACKEL-FORD MILLER, JUDGE. Judgment for Defendants. Plaintiffs Appeal. LEGAL PROPOSITION AND AUTHORITIES.
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Case 100 — Action by G. Clarence Pettit, &c. Against Joanna Nob- ’ man, a Lunatic, and Her Committee, por the Sale of Real Estate Jointly Owned by Her and the Plaintiffs. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, CHY. DIV. NO. 1,-SHACKEL-FORD MILLER, JUDGE. Judgment for Defendants. Plaintiffs Appeal. LEGAL PROPOSITION AND AUTHORITIES. A conveyance by the husband to his wife, for life, with remainder to her children, at her death, should not be construed to embrace a child born to the wife, during a second marriage; a child of'a second -husband. “The conveyance must be read in the light of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
JÍTDGE SETTLE
Affirming.
By this action against their half-sister, Joanna Norman, a lunatic, and the Louisville Trust Company, her committee, the appellants, G. Clarence Pettit and Ben W. Pettit, sought' to obtain a decree for the sale of two lots in the city of Louisville, and a division of the proceeds according to the rights of the parties; it being averred in the petition that the lots were indivisible, that one of them was jointly owned by and in the possession of appellants,and that the other was jointly owned by and in the possession of appellants and the appellee…
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