Reynolds' Adm'r v. Reynolds
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 102 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM MASON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. As the plaintiff alleges that the note for $500.00 was given for money borrowed from her by her father she can not recover except upon proof of the particular consideration alleged. (James v. Hayden’s Adm’r, 10 Ky. Law Bep., 534; Howard v. Cornelison, 5 Ky.
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Case 102 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM MASON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. As the plaintiff alleges that the note for $500.00 was given for money borrowed from her by her father she can not recover except upon proof of the particular consideration alleged. (James v. Hayden’s Adm’r, 10 Ky. Law Bep., 534; Howard v. Cornelison, 5 Ky. Law Bep., 919; Boone v. Shackleford, 4 Bibb, 68; Cutter v. Beynolds, 8 B. M., 598; Bullitt v. Ealston, 1 A.'K. Mar., 531; Steadman v. Guthrie, 4 Met., 152.) 2. The evidence does not establish a gift of the $500.00 by the mother to the daughter. An intention to give, though…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivered the opinion op the court.
The record in this case is so voluminous, by reason of the mass of irrelevant and incompetent testimony found in it, as to require exhaustive briefs in the discussion of the family history of the litigants. It is an unfortunate domestic trouble,’and, without tracing its origin to those responsible for the litigation, we will proceed at once to determine the questions involved, of which this court should take cognizance.
G. G. Reynolds died intestate in the year 1885. He left his widow and several children and grandchildren surviving him.
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