Phillips v. Farley
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 99 — Action for Sale of Land and Division of Proceeds.— APPEAL FROM HENDERSON CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for a Sale of the Land and Defendant, Amos Phillips, Appeals. Appellant, Amos Phillips, was married to Miss Susie B. Farley in 1893. In January, 1894 the land in controversy was conveyed to her in fee simple. In 1895 a child was born of the marriage and died in a few days, its mother, Mrs. Phillips, also dying a few months later.
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Case 99 — Action for Sale of Land and Division of Proceeds.— APPEAL FROM HENDERSON CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for a Sale of the Land and Defendant, Amos Phillips, Appeals. Appellant, Amos Phillips, was married to Miss Susie B. Farley in 1893. In January, 1894 the land in controversy was conveyed to her in fee simple. In 1895 a child was born of the marriage and died in a few days, its mother, Mrs. Phillips, also dying a few months later. In 1901 the appellee, W. C. Farley, and other relatives of the deceased mother, brought this suit for a sale and division of the land in controversy claiming…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE DURELLE
Affirming.
This record presents a controversy between the surviving husband of Susan Farley Phillips on one side and her- relatives on the other. The appellant and his wife intermarried in December, 1892. In January, 1893, the land in controversy was conveyed to her in fee simple. On March 15, 1894, .the act relating to husband and wife, known as the “Weissinger Act” (section 2127, Kentucky Statutes), was *839enacted, and took effect in June, 1894. In January, 1895, Susan Farley Phillips died, leaving an infant child, Bettie Phillips, who died in June, 1895,…
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