Legal Opinion

Dennis v. Warder

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided October 17, 1842PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Error to the Fleming Circuit. Ejectment. Case 63. The case stated.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Roeektson

In the year 1813, Moses Moss, then residing in Virginia, and owning a tract of land-there, published a willi directing his executors, among other things, to sell his “real estate” and divide the proceeds among his five children. The testator afterwards sold his land in Virgenia, removed to Kentucky, and purchased another tract here, on which he lived and died, without any revocation or re-publication of the will of 1813. That will having been proved and admitted to record, the only executor who accepted the trust, sold the testator’s tract of land in this State to Nelly Moss, and distributed…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Warner's Executors v. SwearingenCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1838

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Fears v. MerrillSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1849
  2. McClaskey v. BarrU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Ohio · 1893

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