Dockery's Executors v. Dockery
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Appeal from Russell Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Carroll
Affirming in part and reversing in part.
Simco Dockery died testate in Russell county in October, 1914. In Ms will, written in March, 1907, and probated after his death, he devised all of his estate, after making provision for the payment of debts and funeral expenses, to his brother H. M. Dockery, and the children of his brother, Vincent Dockery. The paragraph giving Ms estate to them reads as follows:
“I give and devise to my brother Vincent Dockery’s heirs all of my four farms on Cumberland River in the Hereford Bottom in Russell county and State…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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