Jarboe v. Griffith

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson—

Affirming.

Clinton Griffith sold James Jarboe a lot in Owensboro, Kentucky for $300.00 and tendered Mm a deed which Jarboe refused to accept on the ground that Griffith’s title was not good. Griffith thereupon instituted this suit against Jarboe. The circuit court held the title good and Jarboe appeals.

The title of Clinton Griffith is under the will of his father, D. M. Griffith, who died in 1893. By the will the testator directed his estate to be divided into seven parts. So much -of the will as relates to the one-seventh devised to Clinton Griffith…