Hazard Coal Corporation v. Getaz

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Tinsley

Reversing.

John R. Combs (known in the record as Remines Combs), a resident of Perry county, 'died in the year 1907, the owner of a large boundary of land on Acup creek, waters of Carr’s fork of the North fork of the Kentucky river. He left surviving him his widow, Mary Combs, and eleven children, to wit, Melissa, Emily, Sebrina, Riley, John D., Harrison, Perlina, who married Warner Roark, Washington, Bradley, Jane, and McKinley Combs, as his heirs at law. Shortly after the death of her father, Melissa conveyed to her brother Riley her undivided…