Eggner v. Hovekamp
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 32. — ACTION BY PETER EGGNER AGAINST BEN HOVEKAMP AND OTHERS. — Appeal from McCracken Circuit Court. Judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals — AUTHORITIES CITED. 1. Land held by ancestor under parol purchase occupied by widow and two daughters for many years after father’s death, then partitioned, and deed made by husband of one daughter and herself to the other daughter, is by inlieritance and not by purchase, notwithstanding husband may have procured a conveyance…
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CASE 32. — ACTION BY PETER EGGNER AGAINST BEN HOVEKAMP AND OTHERS. — Appeal from McCracken Circuit Court. Judgment for defendants, plaintiff appeals — AUTHORITIES CITED. 1. Land held by ancestor under parol purchase occupied by widow and two daughters for many years after father’s death, then partitioned, and deed made by husband of one daughter and herself to the other daughter, is by inlieritance and not by purchase, notwithstanding husband may have procured a conveyance to himself from some third person, especially when the land was regarded as the joint property of the two daughters and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Chief Justice Settle
Affirming.
Appellant, as a creditor of Betsy Ann Mathis, following her death brought this action against her administrator and children for a settlement of her estate, and to recover $475, the amount of two notes which the decedent executed to him a year or more before, her death. The notes were for a batanee and the larger part of the purchase price of a tract of land in McCracken county, sold and conveyed the decedent- by appellant in 1906, their payment being .•secured by a vendor’s lien on the land expressly retained in the deed. In 1907…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Brown v. FerrellCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1885
- Mitchell v. SimpsonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1889
- Mefford v. DoughertyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1889
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- Bentley v. Consolidation Coal CompanyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1925
- Kentland Coal & Coke Co. v. BlankenshipCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1957
- Crawley v. CrawleyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1929
- Cox v. Fink & JensonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1923
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