McGoodwin v. Shelby

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Reversing.

In May, 1915, Miss Florrie Hood, a most eccentric and peculiar woman, died intestate, childless and unmarried, at her home in Lebanon, Kentucky, she being about seventy years of. age, and the owner by inheritance of several houses and lots and some, acreage property in the city of Lebanon, and quite an amount of personal property, the whole aggregating in value between thirty and forty thousand dollars. There were no close relatives living so far as known. Some very distant relatives by the name of Harrison and one Mrs. Buena McGoodwin, also a…