Duke's Adm'r v. Patton

Opinion op the Court bt

Judge Rees

Reversing.

Richard Dube died in 1928, leaving two infant children, George Duke and Mildred Duke. At the time of his death, he owned a small farm on Right Beaver creek in Floyd county, which was inherited by his two children. Mildred Duke married John B. Martin, and continued to reside on the Duke farm after her father’s death. Morgan Patton and Susan Patton, his wife, were neighbors and friends of the Duke family, and during much of the time after his father’s death, and before his own death in 1932, George Duke lived in the Patton home. George Duke was killed…