Smith v. Harris

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Reversing.

Green Raney died a citizen and resident of Pulaski County, Kentucky, the date not being’ shown by the record, or if so we have been unable to find it. On August 2,1912, he executed his will — which appears to have been carefully prepared — and after his death it was probated in the county court of his county. He attached to his will, as a part of it, a plat, wherein he divided his devised land into lots or parcels and gave to some of his children certain designated ones on the plat but with a reserved life estate in the whole tract to his…