Buford v. Speed
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 21 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM FRANKLIN CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Halleck .on Laws of War, 357. Confiscation Act of Congress of 1862. Clancy on Husband and Wife, pp. 359, 360, 361. 3 Kent, 36. 5 J. J. Mar. 230, Long’s adm’r v. White’s adm’r. 10 B. Mon. 322, Coleman v. Wooley. 13 B. Mon. 383, Bill & Terry v. Kellar. .11 Wall. 306, Miller v. United States.
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Case 21 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL FROM FRANKLIN CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Halleck .on Laws of War, 357. Confiscation Act of Congress of 1862. Clancy on Husband and Wife, pp. 359, 360, 361. 3 Kent, 36. 5 J. J. Mar. 230, Long’s adm’r v. White’s adm’r. 10 B. Mon. 322, Coleman v. Wooley. 13 B. Mon. 383, Bill & Terry v. Kellar. .11 Wall. 306, Miller v. United States. CITED Story on Agency, secs. 118, 141, 19S, 194, 237, 250. Douglas’s Paley on Agency, 171. 7 Cranch, 603, Fairfax’s devisee v. Hunter’s lessee. 3Wheat. 594, Craig v. Radford. 9 Wall. 72, United States v. Grossmayer.’ 3 Phillimore on…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE COFER
delivered the opibion oe the court.
In the year 1862 the appellant Buford was the owner of a large and very valuable farm situated in Woodford County, on which he then resided with his family, consisting of his wife' and only child, then a minor. In the fall of that year he left his wife and child residing on the farm and entered the Confederate army, and remained absent from home until the close of the war in 1865.
Some time in 1863 Mrs. Buford and the friends of herself and her husband became apprehensive that his estate would be libeled for condemnation under the act of congress…
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