Caldwell v. Caldwell
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 39 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM CAMPBELL CIRCUIT COURT. CITED 13 B. Monroe, 202, Wheeler’» heirs-v. Dunlap. 8 B. Monroe, 603, Stephens v. Walker. 7 B. Monroe, 626, Webb’s heirs v. Webb. 7 Sergeant and Rawle, 111, Id dings y. Iddings. 1Metcalfe, 277, Allen v. Vanmeter. 1 Phillips on Evidence, 545. 1 Johnson’s Chancery, 231, 341. 3 Monroe, 82. 2 Black United States, 418. 14 Howard, 44, Konnett v. Chambers.
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Case 39 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM CAMPBELL CIRCUIT COURT. CITED 13 B. Monroe, 202, Wheeler’» heirs-v. Dunlap. 8 B. Monroe, 603, Stephens v. Walker. 7 B. Monroe, 626, Webb’s heirs v. Webb. 7 Sergeant and Rawle, 111, Id dings y. Iddings. 1Metcalfe, 277, Allen v. Vanmeter. 1 Phillips on Evidence, 545. 1 Johnson’s Chancery, 231, 341. 3 Monroe, 82. 2 Black United States, 418. 14 Howard, 44, Konnett v. Chambers. Worthington on Wills, side-page 77. CITED 2 Powell on Devises, pages 415, 630, 369, 649. 3 Atkins, 539, Drakeford v. Weeks. 3 Vesey, 152, 153, 154. 9 Vesey, 519,, Strickland v.…
1Opinion of the Court
OHIEE JUSTICE ROBERTSON
delivered the oriNion or the court.
In the year 1863 Alexander Caldwell, a citizen of Campbell County, Kentucky, shortly before his death, published his last will, whereby he contemplated a proximate equality in the distribution of his estate among his six children, one of whom, James Caldwell, was then a soldier in the Confederate army. The testator, sympathizing with that son and the cause he had espoused, indicated a desire to secure to him “the home place” of nearly three hundred acres of land, which would not have exceeded the value of the devises to each of his…
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