Todd v. Gentry
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 102 — Action to Set Aside Deed and Recover Land APPEAL FROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Defendants and Plaintiffs Appeal. Madison Todd, Jr., died unmarried and childless, leaving a will in which he devised to Minnie Gentry a tract of land known as his Tudor land and his eighth interest in his mother’s estate. He was the equitable owner of fifty-five acres of land in Madison county which he had bought of Smith & Evans.
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Case 102 — Action to Set Aside Deed and Recover Land APPEAL FROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Defendants and Plaintiffs Appeal. Madison Todd, Jr., died unmarried and childless, leaving a will in which he devised to Minnie Gentry a tract of land known as his Tudor land and his eighth interest in his mother’s estate. He was the equitable owner of fifty-five acres of land in Madison county which he had bought of Smith & Evans. In the first clause he gives to his father, who was then living, $2 in gold, and to each of his father’s children $1 in gold. No allusion whatever is made in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE HOBSON
Reversing.
The will of Madison Todd, Jr., which was duly probated after his death, is in these words: “I this day make a will of my property as follows: I give to my father, T), F. Todd, $2.00 in gold; and to his sis children, Nannie, Jnlia, Sallie, William, Maggie, and Rutherford Todd, $1.00 *705each in gold; amd it is to be prescribed on it, by some jeweler, it is my interest in M. Todd’s estate, and said jeweler is to be paid out of my estate, and this dollar in gold is to be defaced so it can’t be passed as currency any longer. I also give to Minnie B. Gentry…
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