Bailey v. Jones

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice McCandless

Reversing.

E. Y. Begley, deceased, was married three times, and at his death was survived by his third wife and by one or more children of each marriage. In a suit brought by the children of the second marriage, for sale and division of the real estate left by E. Y. Begley, it was alleged in the petition that their mother, Emeriah Begley, was adjudged to be insane, and confined in the asylum for the insane in the city of Lexington; and that, while she was so' confined and non compos mentis, their father instituted a suit against her for divorce,…