Yancy v. Smith
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 11 — PETITION EQUITY — ACTUAL FROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT, cited 1 Cruise's Digest, 162; 7 Dana, 174; 3 Bacon's Ab., 224,' 226; Coke Littleton, 36 B.; Rev. Statutes, art. 4, sec. 7, page 393 ; lb., 281, sec. 13 ; 41 Law Library, Macpherson on Infants, 532-3; 16 B. Mon. 551. cited Rev. Stat., art. 4, sec. 7, page 393 ; Cousin's Dig., vol. 1, tit. 7, chap. 1, sections 7 to 21; 16 B. Mon., 469 ; 5 Mon., 57; 6 Dana, 206.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Simpson
delivered the otinion of the court:
This action was brought by the appellee, to have her dower assigned in a tract of land in the possession of the appellant. Her right to dower was denied by the latter, on the ground that she had in her possession fifty-five acres of land, and a valuable negro woman and child, to which she was entitled during her life, under an instrument of writing executed in the lifetime of her husband, at his instance, he having paid for the property the sum of one thousand dollars.
That the appellee had such property in her possession, and *409claimed a right to it under the…
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