Eason v. Highley

Hast, C. J.,

(after stating the facts). It is the settled law of this State that where an estate comes to an intestate by gift or devise, without consideration other than that of blood, it is an ancestral estate; but that, if any part of the consideration is a valuable one, the estate acquired is a new acquisition. The court has held frequently that the purpose of the statute creating ancestral estates was to keep such estates in the line oif1 blood from which they came, and that blood must be the only consideration by which they are acquired, whether by devise or gift. Hence, if an estate is…