Legal Opinion

Gasaway v. Woods

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided September 24, 1872PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Case 18 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM HICKMAN CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Homestead Exemption Act, Myers’s Supplement, 715. Constitution of Kentucky, sec. 37, art. 2. CITED Homestead Exemption Act, sec. 5, Myers’s Supplement, 715.

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE PRYOR

delivered the opinion op the court.

William Blair died in the county of Hickman, without leaving a child or children, the owner of a small tract of land upon which he resided at the time of his death. His wife survived him, and has since intermarried with the appellee Woods.

The present suit was instituted by the appellants, who are the heirs of Wm. Blair, for the purpose of having allotted to the widow her dower in the tract of land left by the decedent, and for a partition of the remainder of the tract between them and the delivery of the possession.

The court appointed…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Ellis v. DavisCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1890
  2. Miles v. HallCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1876
  3. Eustache v. RodaquestCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1874
  4. Gay v. HanksCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1884
  5. Loyd v. LoydCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1885

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