Rand v. Rand

SWINFORD, District Judge.

Ed Rand, a man of training and education as an engineer, died intestate on October 31, 1952, a resident of Vanceburg, Kentucky. His wife, M. A. Rand, one of the defendants, survived him. He had no children. His nearest surviving relative was his brother, Charles Rand, the plaintiff in this action.

This action is brought by his brother to determine the ownership of two items of property; one is a tract of wild land in Lewis County, Kentucky, supposed to contain about four thousand acres; the other is a bank account in the Citizens Deposit Bank of Vanceburg, Kentucky,…