Kirk v. Crutcher's Admr.

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Eeversing.

J. B. Crutcher died in the year 1899, the owner of 245 acres of land lying in a rectangular shape 357 rods long and 116 rods wide on the south side of the Ohio river, the end of the rectangle being upon the river and the long sides of it running at right angles thereto. He owed at his death a debt secured by a mortgage on the land amounting to $900 or $1,000. He left two unmarried daughters, one of them being an infant .about eighteen years of age. After his death W. P. Crutcher, his son, who was unmarried, qualified as1 administrator, and…