Barnett's Adm'r v. Pittman

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Pulton

— Affirming.

Cora Brown Barnett was killed in Lexington by ber husband, Dan Barnett, on August 11, 1938. She left no 'will. Dan Barnett was a resident of Lincoln County and his wife had formerly resided there with him. Immediately after her death the appellee, Fannie Brown Pittman, her mother and sole heir at law, filed an affidavit in the Fayette County Court stating that her daughter was a resident of Fayette County, requesting' that B. C. Weatherley be appointed administrator, which was done.

On August 19, 1938, the appellant, B. B. Baker, who was not a…