Legal Opinion

Bowling's Administratrix v. Davis

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided February 15, 1898PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Case 24 — PETITION EQUITY appeal prom carter circuit court, 1. The evidence shows that Henry Davis had ample means in his^ hands belonging to Jonathan Davis to pay appellant’s debt; Henry admits he owes his father twenty-five dollars, and the evidence shows that Merritt Davis, deceased, was an unmarried son of Jonathan Davis’, and had a half interest in the tobacco crop raised by him and Henry in 1892, which netted them one thousand) one hundred dollars; one-fourth of this…

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Case 24 — PETITION EQUITY appeal prom carter circuit court, 1. The evidence shows that Henry Davis had ample means in his^ hands belonging to Jonathan Davis to pay appellant’s debt; Henry admits he owes his father twenty-five dollars, and the evidence shows that Merritt Davis, deceased, was an unmarried son of Jonathan Davis’, and had a half interest in the tobacco crop raised by him and Henry in 1892, which netted them one thousand) one hundred dollars; one-fourth of this sum, or one-half of Merritt’s interest therein was inherited by his father, and should he subjected to this debt. ■ 2.…

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE WHITE

delivered the. opinion of the court.

Tn 1881 appellant’s intestate, William Bowling, recovered judgment in the Carter Circuit Court against Jonathan Davis-, one of tbe appellees, for $21'5-and interest and costs'. lYn execution was issued on said judgment and in 1886 returned, no property found, by tbe sheriff of Carter county.

This áetion-was begun in 1893, on tbe return of no property, by appellant against appellee, Jonathan Davis, and his-son, Henry Davis, also appellee.

The petition alleges these facts of the judgment, execution and return and death of William Bowling and the…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Benefit Association of Ry. Employees v. SecrestCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1931
  2. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of U.S. v. ReynoldsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1935
  3. Brown v. Johnson & JohnsonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1909

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