Igo v. Irvine
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 81. — ACTION INVOLVING A CONSTRUCTION OP THE WILL OP DAVID IRVINE, DECEASED. Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. Judgment holding that the devisee was vested with a fee simple title to the land.
1Opinion of the Court
'Opinion op the Court by
Judge Burn am
Affirming.
This appeal brings before ns the will of David Irvine for construction. It was probated in the Madison County Court on the 15th day of August, 1872, and divided a large landed and personal estate between his four children, two sons and two daughters. The special question which we are asked to determine upon the appeal is whether his son, David W. Irvine, takes under it a fee simple title to a tract of 222.89 acres of land, which he has contracted to sell to the appellant B. M. Igo, or whether he takes it charged *635■with a trust inforcible in equity…
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