Skinner v. Walker
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 117 — PETITIONS EQUITY — APPEALS PROM LYON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The minuteness with which the land is described shows that exactness was intended and that the purchaser did not intend to risk the quantity.
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Case 117 — PETITIONS EQUITY — APPEALS PROM LYON CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The minuteness with which the land is described shows that exactness was intended and that the purchaser did not intend to risk the quantity. (Harrison v. Talbot, 2 Dana, 258; Meriwether v. Lewis, 9 B. M., 175; Fannin v. Bellamy, 5 Bush, 664.) 2. The wife having permanently abandoned the land as a home, and by seeking and obtaining a divorce cut herself oft from all claim on her husband or his property, the court erred in giving her the benefit of homestead for life. (Brame, &c. v. Craig, 12 Bush, 407; Gen. Stats., p. 577, sec.…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LEWIS
DELIVERED THE OPINION OP TItE COURT.
November, 1888, N. T. Braswell brought an action against R. E. Walker to enforce a lien upon two tracts of land, stated in the mortgage to contain 170 acres, 3 roods, 20 poles, and 194 acres, to satisfy a debt of $5,756. F. H. Skinner, becom*732ing a party, sought by cross action the enforcement of a lien upon the first-mentioned tract to satisfy residue of purchase money; and Adaline Walker, having previously obtained judgment of absolute divorce from R. E. Walker, also became a party, and in her pleading set up, as had been done in the action for…
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