Bedford v. Bedford's Administrator
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 49 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM LEWIS CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The two-hundred acre tract of land in Nicholas county should have been adjudged to belong to Susan M. Bedford, because under 'the will of Geo.
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Case 49 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM LEWIS CIRCUIT COURT. 1. The two-hundred acre tract of land in Nicholas county should have been adjudged to belong to Susan M. Bedford, because under 'the will of Geo. M. Bedinger a life estate therein, passed to Ms daughter, Elizabeth M. Bedford, -and the remainder in fee ’therein to Robert Bedford, who devised his entire estate to Susan M. Bed-ford. 2. The provision in Bedinger’s will in devising land to his daughter ■that “if she and her son, Robert, die without children the estate to revert to .her four brothers, requires the happening of 'two…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LANDES
delivered the oeikton oe the court.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bedford died in Lewis county in the -month of February, 1860, leaving a son, Robert Bedford, who was then thirty-two years old. She made a will a short time before she died, which was duly probated, -and which contains the following devises:
“1st. I give and bequeath to my son, Robert Bedford, all of my lands in Lewis county, to have and to hold during his natural life. ... If said Robert Bedford should die *278leaving a child or children of his own body, then those lands are to go to those children and their heirs forever.
“2d. I…
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