Hall v. Wright
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 2 — ACTION BY W. H. HALL, &c., AGAINST JOHN W. WRIGHT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF DEED. Appeal from Letcher Circuit Court. M. J. Moss, Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendant.
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Case 2 — ACTION BY W. H. HALL, &c., AGAINST JOHN W. WRIGHT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF DEED. Appeal from Letcher Circuit Court. M. J. Moss, Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff Appeals. 1. The contention of appellants is that the word “children” is a word of purchase and not a word of inheritance as contended for by appellee. 2. Intention must of course be deduced from the entire deed in order to determine the estate created, and this intention once expressed must govern any subsequent mention where the intention is the question in issue, it being concerning the same subject-matter. 3.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge Nunn
Reversing.
This appeal involves the construction of. the following deed:
‘‘ This March 21 day 1885: This indenture made and entered into between Eli Hall and Polly Hall of the first part and Joseph Hall and his children of the second part, both parties of the county of Letcher and State of Kentucky.
“Know all men by these presents that I, Eli Hall, *18and Polly Hall of the first part hath this day bargained and sold unto Joseph Hall of the second part a certain tract of land containing six hundred acres, be the same more or less, in and for the sum of three hundred dollars to me…
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- Tucker v. TuckerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1880
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