Reddick v. Keesling

Coffey, C. J. —

The complaint in this case alleges, among *130other things, that Lucinda Reddick, who was the wife of the appellant, died in the year 1876, leaving her husband and the appellee, an only child, as her only heirs at law; that said Lucinda, during her lifetime, delivered to the appellant eighteen hundred dollars in trust for the appellee, which he agreed to pay over to her, with the legal interest thereon, when she should be competent to receive and receipt for the same; that the appellee became twenty-one years of age in 1885, and demanded of the appellant a settlement of said trust,…