Southern Coal & Coke Co. v. Bracht

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

O. B. Bracht owned and managed a considerable amount of farming lands in Grant county, Ky. Besides growing crops, he also fed and fattened cattle and other domestic food animals for the market. He likewise engaged in various trading enterprises and was consid ered a prosperous and more or less wealthy man. Misfortune overtook him and he became considerably embarrassed financially at least following the depression throughout the country commencing in 1929. He had been appointed guardian for a nephew and two nieces, the children of the appellee Lena…