Bransom v. Thompson
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 61 — EQUITY APPEAL PROM LYON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The court erred in refusing appellants a judgment for costs. 2. Mrs. Bransom, being- an infant and a feme covert when she executed the power of attorney, it is void. 3. Mrs. Bransom was not seized of the land at her death, and therefore her husband had no curtesy in the land.
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Case 61 — EQUITY APPEAL PROM LYON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The court erred in refusing appellants a judgment for costs. 2. Mrs. Bransom, being- an infant and a feme covert when she executed the power of attorney, it is void. 3. Mrs. Bransom was not seized of the land at her death, and therefore her husband had no curtesy in the land. (Hedger v. Ward, 15 B. M., 106; Gregory v. Ford, 5 B. M., 472; Pyle v. Cravens, 4 Littell, 18; ITardin v. Gerard, 10 Bush, 261; Semple v. Morrison, 7 Mon., 302; Robinson v. Robinson, 11 Bush, 175; Miller v. Shackleford, 3 Dana, 299; Parmers v. Respass, 5 Mon., 567;…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivered tub opinion oe the court.
Matthew Lyon died many years ago, leaving several children surviving him, and the owner of a large tract of land,, then in Caldwell but now in Lyon county, that descended to these children. One of his daughters became the wife of Clark S. Bransom, and in March, 1852, Bransom and his wife executed a power of attorney to one Quarles, empowering him to sell and dispose of any part, or the whole, of the then undivided interest in the lands of Matthew Lyon lying in the counties of Caldwell, Marshall, Ballard,- or McCracken, or elsewhere in the state.
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