Legal Opinion

Dockery's Executors v. Dockery

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided May 16, 1916PublishedCited by 9 opinions

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

  1. Harvey v. BellCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1904
  2. Moore's Admr. v. SleetCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1902
  3. Shaver's Adm'r v. Ewald's Ex'orCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1911

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Shields v. ShieldsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1919
  2. Struss v. Fidelity & Columbia Trust Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1918
  3. Craig's Administrator v. WilliamsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1918
  4. McElroy v. TriggCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1944
  5. Sauer v. Taylor'sCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1919

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