Johnson v. Johnson
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 71 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. cited 12 B. Mon., 234; 5 lb., 116; 14 lb., 145-6; 1 Eq. Lead. Cases, 412, cd. of 1852; 9 Henning’s Statutes at Large, 226; 10iA sec. act of 1796, 1 M. Sy. B., 442; 1 Litt.
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CASE 71 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. cited 12 B. Mon., 234; 5 lb., 116; 14 lb., 145-6; 1 Eq. Lead. Cases, 412, cd. of 1852; 9 Henning’s Statutes at Large, 226; 10iA sec. act of 1796, 1 M. Sy. B., 442; 1 Litt. Laws of Ky., 565; 2 Blackstonc, 113 ; 2 Kent, 353-4; Williams on Personal Property, 204 — 5, 302 ; 10 B. Mon., 56 ; lb., 104 ; 15 Pick., 104, (114;) 1 Sumner, 359 ; 3 Kelly, 551, (564;) 25 Ala., 285; 8 Gratt., 346; 18 Ala., 400; 10 B. Mon., 193; 1 Jarman on Wills, 726-7; 12 B. Mon., 40, 43; 13 lb., 454; Civil Code, sec. 40; 4 Kent., 29; 9 B. Mon., 321 ; 7…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE DUVALL
delivered the opinion of the court:
Mary Vance, by her will which was admitted to record in the year 1835, devised certain property, consisting of land, slaves, and personalty, to her two nephews, Vanee and White, in trust for the separate use of her daughter, Ruth G. Bowen, for and during her natural life.
The fifth clause of the will is as follows: “ It is my will and desire, that after the death of my daughter, Ruth G. Bowen, the property herein devised, both real, personal, and mixed, for the use of my daughter, Ruth G. Bowen, shall be held in trust by my said nephews, Samuel D.…
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