Dowell v. Pumphrey

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

Appellant Dowell and appellee Beard were real estate brokers located at Hardinsburg in Breckinridge county. *60Appellee, Josephine Pumphrey, was the sole devisee of a large tract of Ohio river bottom land located in Breckinridge county, which land was encumbered by mortgage and other liens to the amount of $14,600.00 by the devisor, and these had all been reduced to judgment, the land ordered to be sold to satisfy same and the day of sale fixed for November 25, 1918. Mrs. Pumphrey and her husband, William 0. Pumphrey, were persons of very little…