Legal Opinion

Barnes' Adm'r v. Brashear

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided May 26, 1842Published

Chancery. Case 126. Appeal from the Breckinridge Circuit.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Robertson

delivered tbs Opinion of the Court.

Samuel C. Barnes, a citizen of Kentucky, domiciled in Breckinridge county, died in May, 1839, in the State of Mississippi, whither he had gone on a trading and collecting expedition. The most of his personal estate remained in Kentucky when he died; but he had with him at his death a promissory note for about $900, on a citizen of Kentucky and two citizens of Indiana, and *381some other articles of personalty which he carried with him.

Decree of the Circuit Court. A testamentary-disposition of movable property must, to be valid any where, be made according to the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

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