Bull v. Slaughter

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Reversing.

Lucille Hope Bull, a negro woman eighty-eight years old, owned a house and lot in Danville worth about a thousand dollars and drew a pension of $30.00 a month from the United States. 'She lived alone in the house; her children were dead. She had two grandchildren who lived in Lexington, Kentucky, and also had a sister who lived in Danville four or five squares from her. In'October, 1923, Lizzie Slaughter, a negro woman about fifty-three years old, was going around getting up collections; she and Lucille belonged to the same church. She went…