Cockrill v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke.

Affirming*.

E. L. Coekrill, a resident of Estill county, died testate in 1876, and devised tlie' two hundred, acres of land involved in this action to his widow for life, with remainder to his children and grandchildren per stirpes. After the death of his widow a suit was brougiit by part of his devisees against the other's for the sale of the land and a division of its proceeds. At the sale ordered in that case, George A. Coekrill, a son and devisee of E. L. Coekrill, became the purchaser of the land on November 16, 1891, which sale ivas confirmed at the…