Bonnycastle v. Lilly

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller

Affirming.

*835This is a suit by Mrs. Emma T. Lilly, her two children, and the trustee under the will of her father, to compel John C. Bonnycastle to specifically perform a contract' for the purchase of land in Lexington. Mrs. Lilly and her children acquired title to the property in question under the third clause of the will of her father, John W. Appleton, who died in 1910. Said clause reads as follows :

“I give and devise to my daughter, Emma Lilly, the house and lot in which I now reside, on High street, Lexington, Kentucky, to be her own and held by her for…