Arnold v. Clay

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Perry

Affirming.

This suit was brought to have the court interpret the will of Miss Sallie Turney.

The testatrix, Miss Sallie Turney, an elderly spinster, died a resident of Bourbon county, Ky., in 1897. She had two spinster nieces, sisters, Misses May and Lucy Colville., to whom she devised equal defeasible fee interests in a trust fund of about $13,000, the entirety of which was to be held in trust for the period of their joint lives. By her will she directed her brother, Amos Turney, to hold this trust fund for her nieces, paying them only the income therefrom.

Upon…