Williams v. Williams
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 57 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM PENDLETON CHANCERY COURT. No right of action accrued to appellant until the death of her husband, and, therefore, limitation runs only from that date. (Bransom, &e., v. Thompson, &c., 81 Ky., 638; Anderson’s Trustee v. Sterritt, &c., 79 Ky., 499; McGuire v. Bowman and Others, 6 Bush, 550.) 1. The appellant claims through Eelix Williams, and her claim is barred by the thirty years statute.
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Case 57 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM PENDLETON CHANCERY COURT. No right of action accrued to appellant until the death of her husband, and, therefore, limitation runs only from that date. (Bransom, &e., v. Thompson, &c., 81 Ky., 638; Anderson’s Trustee v. Sterritt, &c., 79 Ky., 499; McGuire v. Bowman and Others, 6 Bush, 550.) 1. The appellant claims through Eelix Williams, and her claim is barred by the thirty years statute. (Conner v. Donner, 4 Bush, 631; Med-lock v. Suter, 80 Ky., 101; Bransom, &c., v. Thompson, 81 Ky., 387.) The claim to dower is not the assertion of a mere personal right…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HOLT
delivered the opinion op the court.
Pope Williams died intestate in 1834, the owner of a considerable tract of land, and leaving nine children as -his heirs. One of them, Felix Williams, married the *382appellant, Elizabeth B. Williams, in 1839. The testimony does not clearly show a division of the land, among the heirs'; but it is probable one was had in. 1842 or 1843. ’
It is claimed the appellant and her husband sold his; interest in a portion of the land in 1843 or 1844 to their brother-in-law, one Byrd, and he in 1845 or 1846 to the appellee, E. P. Williams. The latter, and those…
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