Doty's Adm'r v. Doty's Guardian
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 24 — Action by David Irvine Doty, by His Guardian Annie James against ti-ie Adm’r and Heirs At Law of Boyle Doty, Deceased, to Enforce a Contract APPEAL from MADISON CIRCUIT COURT-J. M. BENTON, CIRCUIT JUDGE. Prom tiie Judgment all Parties Appeal. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES' 'CITED. 1. Annie James was an incompetent Witness. (a) A party to the action. Ency. P. & P. vol. 15, p. 163; Hunt v. Haven, 62 N. H., 162; Ency. P. & P., vol. 15, '594; Ency.
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Case 24 — Action by David Irvine Doty, by His Guardian Annie James against ti-ie Adm’r and Heirs At Law of Boyle Doty, Deceased, to Enforce a Contract APPEAL from MADISON CIRCUIT COURT-J. M. BENTON, CIRCUIT JUDGE. Prom tiie Judgment all Parties Appeal. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES' 'CITED. 1. Annie James was an incompetent Witness. (a) A party to the action. Ency. P. & P. vol. 15, p. 163; Hunt v. Haven, 62 N. H., 162; Ency. P. & P., vol. 15, '594; Ency. P. & P., vol. 15, p. 617; Sub-section 2, section 37, Civil Code; Miller v. Cabell, 81 Ky., 178; Sub-section 1, section 36, .Civil Code; Subsection…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of The court by
JUDGE' HOBSON.Affirming.
About the year 1878, Boyle Doty, a well-to-do bachelor, something like thirty-five years of age, living on his farm, in Madison county, became intimate with Annie -James, a girl about sixteen years of age, living with, her grandmother in the .slashes, two or three miles from Doty’s residence, her father and mother being dead. In the year Í8S2, her grandmother having died, she went to his house and lived with him as his mistress. In 1889 a .son was born to them — the appellee, David Irvine Doty. They continued after the birth of the child living…
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