Hedger v. Judy
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 94 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM GRANT CIRCUIT COURT. The debt owing to the estate of J. C. Hedger, deceased, for the purchase money lien on the three hundred acres of land is tobe treated as any other .debt owing by the testator, and the personal estate of the testator must first be applied to its payment.
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Case 94 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM GRANT CIRCUIT COURT. The debt owing to the estate of J. C. Hedger, deceased, for the purchase money lien on the three hundred acres of land is tobe treated as any other .debt owing by the testator, and the personal estate of the testator must first be applied to its payment. (Broadwell v. Broadwell, 4 Met., 291; Augustus v. Seabolt, 3 Met., 159; Jackson v. Payne, 2 Met., 567 ; Allen v. Vanmeter, 1 Mel., 277 ; McCampbell v. Me-Campbell, 5 Litt., 92; Moore v. Howe, 4 Mon., 221; Petty’s Heirs v. Montague, 7 B. M., 55; Moore v. Moore, 12 B. M., 656; Oromie v.…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LEWIS
DELIVERED THE OPINION OF THE COURT.
Sandford Hedger, by will dated July 16,1884, and probated August 11, 1884, devised to his brothers, Johnethcm and James Hedger, his farm, containing about three hundred acres of land, also jointly with bis sister, Margaret Judy, all household and kitchen furniture; to Margaret Judy, $1,000 ; to his nephew, John Judy, $1,000; to Reuben Hedger, an illegitimate child, then an infant, $1,000, to bo paid to him upon becoming twenty-four years of age. Also, in language of the testator, “ all of the remainder of my estate that maj7 bo left after the…
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