Akers v. Martin
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 45 — Action by Josephine Martin v. Jacob P. Akees and Others, to Recover Damages for Deceit — APPEAL FROM FLOYD CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant, J. P. Akers, Appeals, Plaintiff Prosecuting Cross Appeal. The appellee, Josephine Martin, inherited from her father, Daniel Akers, an interest in a tract of timber land.
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Case 45 — Action by Josephine Martin v. Jacob P. Akees and Others, to Recover Damages for Deceit — APPEAL FROM FLOYD CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant, J. P. Akers, Appeals, Plaintiff Prosecuting Cross Appeal. The appellee, Josephine Martin, inherited from her father, Daniel Akers, an interest in a tract of timber land. In April, 1895, her brother, Jacob P. Akers, went to Missouri, where she had been residing since 1876, and bought from her for himself and brother, the appellee, George Akers, her share in the land for $800, her share having been set apart to her. This suit…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE BURNAM
reversing on the original AND CROSS APPEAL.
The appellee, Josephine Martin, inherited from her father, Daniel Akers, a tract of land in Floyd county, Ky. In 1895 she sold and conveyed this land to her brother, Jacob *338Akers for $800 cask. On the 8th of May, 1896, she insti(i*i- ¿ this suit against him, .in which she alleges that she was married and left Kentucky in the year 1875, and had since lived in the State of Missouri, never having returned to Kentucky; that several years before the institution of this suit her father died, and a portion of the real…
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