Conner v. Downer
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 87 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM TODD CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— Revised Statutes, section 5, chapter 62. CITED— Revised Statutes, section 5, article 1, chapter 63; section 18, chapter 80. 10 B. Mon., 50; Neely, fyc., vs. Butler. 9 B. Mon., 60; Orr vs. Holliday. 6 Mon., 179; Adams vs. Logan. 5 Littcll, 315; Garner’s adm’r vs. Strode. 2 Duvall, 284; Lane vs. Berry.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Williams
delivered the oprarou op toe couet:
The grandfather of appellant, Mrs. Ann Eliza Conner, having died a resident of Virginia, devised to her mother a tract of wild land, in Todd county, Kentucky. The mother having died previous to the year 1835, also a resident of Virginia, this land descended to her four children and heirs-at-law.
The surviving husband, and father of appellant, Ann Eliza, never having had actual seisin, was not entitled to curtesy, therefore, she and her co-heirs were the holders of the legal title with the right of immediate entry.
In the year of 1835 this land was sold by…
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