Legal Opinion

Lightfoot v. Lightfoot

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided February 20, 1925PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Dietzman

^Affirming.

This appeal involves a. construction of paragraph 2 of Martha C. Lightfoot’s will, which reads as follows:

“I want my husband, James M. Lightfoot, to have my farm on which we now live until his death, and then I want it sold and the money to be used to build a general Baptist church as near the Old Drake church in Warren county, Kentucky, near Drake postoffice, as the land can be bought.”

Martha C. Lightfoot died on August 9, 1904. She had for a number of years been a member of the Old Liberty General Baptist church which at that time was located…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Curling's Administrators v. Curling's HeirsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1839
  2. Miller v. TatumCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1918
  3. Obrecht v. PujosCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1925

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Bush's v. MacKoyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1937
  2. Kelly v. Second Presbyterian Church of U.S. A.Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1941

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