Payne v. Payne's Adm'r

Opinion, op the Court by

Judge Ratliff

— Reversing

The appellant, Mabel Payne, and John L. Payne (both of the colored race) were married in Louisville, Jefferson county, Kentucky, in November, 1908, and lived together in Louisville several years thereafter. The evidence is somewhat confusing as to the esact date appellant left Louisville but in any event not before 1927 or perhaps a few years later, more probably about 1934, when appellant left Louisville and went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and engaged in the restaurant business. She was also a preacher or evangelist and did some church work while she…