Layer v. Layer
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 61 — Action by William Layer Contesting Will of Adam C. Layer — APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. Judgment for the Propounders and Contestants Appeal. Adam C. Layer died in 1896 and’ left surviving him a widow, and three children, one son, and two daughters.
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Case 61 — Action by William Layer Contesting Will of Adam C. Layer — APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. Judgment for the Propounders and Contestants Appeal. Adam C. Layer died in 1896 and’ left surviving him a widow, and three children, one son, and two daughters. He willed his entire estate about $30,000, to his wife, as long as she remained his widow, and at her death all his property remaining to go to his two daughters, and they were to pay their brother $100. In the event one daughter should die, the other got ail. He died suddenly, sitting in a bar room. The son…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
JUDGE HOBSON
-Reversing.
Adam C. Layer died a resident of Jefferson county, in the year 1896, the owner of an estate amounting to some*546thing over $20,000, exclusive of life insurance. He left surviving him his wife, Christina Layer, and three children, —a son, William C. Layer, then about twenty-six years old, and two daughters, then fifteen and seventeen years old. In October before he died he made a will by which he devised all his property to his wife so long as she remained his widow, with the right to do with it as she pleased, but if she married she was to receive…
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