Legal Opinion

Chenault's Guardian v. Chenault's Executors

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided November 23, 1888PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Case 12 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL FROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Lewis

In 1885, David C. Clienault died, leaving a will dated September, 1878, to which was in June, 1885, added a codicil. Following large bequests for sustaining Baptist preaching and to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is this provision in the will: “The remainder of my estate I desire equally divided between the children of my brothers and sisters, except in the case of my two living sisters, Elizabeth Bennett and Nancy Munday. I desire the portion going to their children *84go to my sisters or sister, as the case may be, for their or her sole and separate nse, both to enjoy and dispose…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Churchill v. ChurchillCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1859
  2. Sheets v. Grubbs'Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1863
  3. Dunlap v. Shreve's ex'rsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1865

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Oliver Co. v. Louisville Realty Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1913
  2. Downing v. NicholsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1902
  3. Ruff v. BaumbachCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1902
  4. Wells v. JewellCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1929
  5. Nance's Executors v. AkersCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1915

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