Begley v. Jones

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clay

Reversing.

E. Y. Begley, deceased, who was married three times, was survived by his third wife, Elizabeth Begley, and one or more children of each marriage. The children of the second marriage brought this suit for a sale and division of the real estate which their father, E. Y. Begley, owned at the time of his death, and alleged that their father obtained a judgment of divorce from their mother, Emeriah Begley, while she was non compos mentis and confined in the asylum for the insane at Lexington; that for this reason the judgment of divorce was void, and the…