Bishop v. Bishop

PALMORE, Judge.

This is a controversy between two sets of children of the late Taylor L. Bishop as to the ownership of the 162-acre “Oil City” farm on which he resided until his death in 1956. The chancellor found in favor of the plaintiffs, children by the first wife.

Prior to the first World War the decedent, Taylor Bishop, owned two tracts of land in Barren County, known as the Oil City Farm (162 acres) and the Red Cross Farm (82 acres). In 1911 and 1912, being in financial straits, he obtained some money from his father-in-law, as an incident to which he conveyed the two places to his wife,…