Legal Opinion

Willis v. Woodward

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided September 19, 1867PublishedCited by 1 opinion

CASE 53 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL EBOM CAMPBELL CIBCUIT OOUHT. CITED— Civil Code, sec. 445. 11 Howard, 325; VanRansalear vs. Kearney. 4 Peters-, 1; Carver- vs. Jackson. 1 Greenleaf’s Evidence, 23. CITED— 9 B. Mon., 547; Scarborough vs. Watkins and wife. 18 B. Mon., 908; Todd’s heirs vs. Wickliffe. Story’s Equity Jurisprudence, 764 — 5. Clancy on Married Women, 350. 17 Penn.

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CASE 53 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL EBOM CAMPBELL CIBCUIT OOUHT. CITED— Civil Code, sec. 445. 11 Howard, 325; VanRansalear vs. Kearney. 4 Peters-, 1; Carver- vs. Jackson. 1 Greenleaf’s Evidence, 23. CITED— 9 B. Mon., 547; Scarborough vs. Watkins and wife. 18 B. Mon., 908; Todd’s heirs vs. Wickliffe. Story’s Equity Jurisprudence, 764 — 5. Clancy on Married Women, 350. 17 Penn. R.; Garrigens vs. Harris. 4 Monroe, 375; Peddicord, fyc., vs. Gibson’s adm’rs. 5 /. J. Marshall, 570; Lyne vs. Bank of Kentucky. 1 Spence’s Equity Jurisprudence, 625. 5 Dana, 184; Cruise vs. Christopher. 13 Vesey,jr., 51;…

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Peters

In 1857 the appellee was possessed of the legal title to two lots in the city of Newport, one of which had been conveyed to her by Patrick Moran and wife, in 1854, and the other was conveyed to her by Henry K. Lindsey and wife, in 1856. At the date of these conveyances she was the wife of Capt. Benjamin Woodward.

On the 19th of September, 1857, appellee united with her husband in the conveyance of said lots to G. Frank Hayman, and on the same day Hayman and wife conveyed them to her husband, the said Benjamin Woodward.

The deeds from Woodward-and wife recite .that the lots were purchased and…

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