Elliott v. Nichols
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 55 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL EKOM NELSON CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— Revised Statutes, sec. 14, chap. 42, 2 M. B., 876. 1 Dana, SI; Ross vs. Garrison. 1 Dana, 242; Rogers vs. Grider. 3 Bibb, 3; Gist's heirs vs. Robinet. 1 Duvall, 272;, Babbitt vs. Scroggin. 3 Bush, 454; Croan, fyc., vs. Joyce, fyc.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Williams
delivered tbe'opimbn of the court:
January 23,1837, Henry Nichols conveyed to his daughter Elizabeth, and her husband, Henry Nichols, certain lands, to them and their heirs forever, which, together with other lands, the husband mortgaged March 9, 1865, to appellants, to secure various specified debts.
Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols died in the year 1861, leaving appellees as her children and heirs at law, who resist the foreclosure of the mortgage on one half the land so conveyed by their grandfather to their father and mother, claiming that, by the Revised Statutes, enacted in the year of 1850, the…
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