Farley v. Gibson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Willis

Reversing.

J. E. Thompson died intestate, the owner of two -farms in the county of McCracken and of two improved lots in the city of Paducah. He was survived by his widow and two infant daughters, Virtrue and Beulah 'Thompson. Several years later the widow married W. B. Gibson. No assignment of dower to the widow, or ■formal partition of the property, was ever made, but in 1914, after the daughters had reached maturity and married, they conveyed to their mother the fee-simple title to the smaller farm, and, by agreement, divided the larger one between…