Belknap v. Martin
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 11 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. CITED— Revised Statutes, sec. 17, chap. 47. 17 B. Mon., 55; Stuart vs. Wilder. CITED— 17 B. Mon., 549; Lyons vs. Fields. Revised Statutes, sec. 24, chap. 80. 1 Wheaton, 303; Story’s Equity, sec. 1065. 2 Wash, on Real Prop., 320 ; 1 Wood Conv., 498, note.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PETERS
delivered the opinion of the court:
The deed from G. Bullitt and wife to Wilson, of the 19th of February, 1852, did not in terms nor in meaning create a separate estate in Mrs. Bullitt in the property conveyed; but it was an assignment of the estate to Wilson in trust to secure the residue of the debt which Bullitt owed his wife, after the estate in Louisiana, on which she had a claim, should be exhausted, with the power of sale in Wilson; and the proceeds were to be held by him *44for the separate use of the wife, after he executed the power to sell conferred on him.
It was first…
2Cited by1 opinion
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