Legal Opinion

Bettis v. Bailey

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided October 9, 1866Published

CASE 21 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM GARRARD CIRCUIT COURT.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Peters

delivered tub opimos of the court:

In July, 1862, a small tract of land in Garrard county, containing a fraction over fifty-eight acres, was purchased *609by Logan as the friend of Mrs. Bettis, then a married woman, and under twenty-one years of age, from Baylor^ Jennings, at the price of one thousand one hundred dollars. Of this sum, five hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-two cents were paid in satisfaction of two executions, then in the hands of G. E. Hacldey, sheriff of Garrard county, against the estate of said Jennings, &c., and the residue was paid to Jennings himself, or to some of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Clarke v. BellCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1822

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