Evansville Coffin Co. v. Sumner

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming in part and reversing' in part.

The first wife of C. R. Sumner died intestate prior to 1912, the owner of a house and lot in Cadiz, Kentucky, worth less than $1,000.00, in which, at the time of her death, she with her husband and their children resided.

On February 3, 1912, it was adjudged in an action then pending in the Trigg circuit court that the house and lot descended to two sons of decedent subject, however, to the homestead right of appellee therein. Appellee continued to reside in the property until January 1, 1918. In the meantime one son…