Berry v. Owens' heirs
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 32 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— 1 B. Mon., 632; Ramsey vs. Allen. 2 Kent., 212. 8 Lews. (Fa.) Reports; Garland vs. Hanson. 15 Grattan; 10 B. Mon.; Black vs. Cartncll. 3 Dana, 233 ; Stover vs. Boswell's heirs, ¿pc. 2 Dana, 365 ; Scroggin vs. Allen.
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CASE 32 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— 1 B. Mon., 632; Ramsey vs. Allen. 2 Kent., 212. 8 Lews. (Fa.) Reports; Garland vs. Hanson. 15 Grattan; 10 B. Mon.; Black vs. Cartncll. 3 Dana, 233 ; Stover vs. Boswell's heirs, ¿pc. 2 Dana, 365 ; Scroggin vs. Allen. CITED— Revised Statutes, sec. 5, chap. 30. Act of 1796, sec. 18, Statute Laws, 565. 1 Met., 635; Allen vs. Ramsey's heirs. 2 Dana, 363 ; Scroggin vs. Allen. 5 Wheaton, 207 ; Stevenson's heirs vs. Sullivant, 8 B. Mon., 606; Remington vs. Lewis.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE UOBEltTSON
delivered the opinion of the court: •
In January, 1867, John Owens, of Madison county, Kentucky, owning an estate estimated at forty-six thousand three hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-one cents, died intestate, wifeless and childless, leaving a large number of collateral kindred, who claim distribution as his legal heirs and distributees; and this suit in equity was brought to divide the estate among those entitled to it. Among the claimants is the appellant, Thomas J. Berry, whose deceased mother seemed to have been the illegitimate and only child of Barthona Owens,…
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