Shields v. Parsons

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Willis

— Reversing.

This litigation, between a father and daughter, involves their respective rights to a lot in the city of Lexington. ■ The suit was instituted by Elizabeth Shields against her father, B. E. Parsons, and his present wife, primarily to recover the lot on the ground that it had been devised to her by her deceased' mother, but if that' relief could not be granted, that her father’s homestead or dower be set apart to him and the title to the lot adjudged to her, subject to her father’s rights. The answer traversed the allegations of the petition…