Gibbs v. Turner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DawsoN, C. J.:

This is the second appearance of this case in this court. (Gibbs v. Turner, 140 Kan. 53, 34 P. 2d 564.)

In the earlier appeal certain provisions of the will of Anderson M. Morton, of Kentucky, who died in 1883, were subjected to judicial scrutiny; and it was held, among other matters, that under the third clause of his will three nieces of the testator, Helen, Elizabeth and Mary, spinster daughters of his sister Selina Canfield, took only the income of a certain town lot in Parsons for the terms of their natural lives, and that no interest…