Powell's Heirs v. Powell's Administrators & Heirs
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Chancery. From the Circuit Court for Greenup County. Decided by Chief Justice Robertson and Judge Marshall, in the absence of Judge Ewing.
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Marshall
delivered the Opinion of the Court.
This case was formerly before the Court, when the decree of Circuit Court against the claim of Vincent Powell's heirs to participate m the division of the estate descended from their grandfather, Joseph Powell, was reversed.
By the opinion of the Court then rendered, (5 Dana, 168,) it was decided, that Vincent Powell, who died before his father, had received forty acres of land, (part of the one hundred acres conveyed to him by his father,) by way of advancement, for which his heirs should account, in coming into partition with the six surviving…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Powell's Heirs v. Powell's HeirsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1837
3Cited by1 opinion
- Turner v. KellySupreme Court of Alabama · 1880