Adams v. De Dominques
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 69. — ACTION BY ROSS A. ADAMS AGAINST HELEN M. DE DOMINQUES, ON EXCEPTIONS TO CONFIRMATION OF A PARTITION SALE OF LAND. — Oct. 6. Appeal from Fayette Circuit Court. Watts Parker, Circuit Judge.
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CASE 69. — ACTION BY ROSS A. ADAMS AGAINST HELEN M. DE DOMINQUES, ON EXCEPTIONS TO CONFIRMATION OF A PARTITION SALE OF LAND. — Oct. 6. Appeal from Fayette Circuit Court. Watts Parker, Circuit Judge. From a judgment overruling the exceptions, plaintiff appeals — POINTS AND AUTHORITIES. 1. As neither title nor possession of the property sought to be sold in this action was alleged .in the petition or amended petition under the authority of section 490 of the Civil Code this proceeding was insufficient to pass the title of the nonresident and infant defendants to this action. 2. It appearing in…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Judge Hobson —
Affirming;.
Elizabeth G-eohegan, who died about the year 1850, owning certain lots in Lexington, Ky., devised the property to four of her daughters and one son. The son conveyed his interest to the four daughters. One of the daughters died, and devised her fourth interest to Ellen White, one of the other three daughters, thus vesting in Ellen White one-half of the property and one-fourth each in her two sisters, Anna Murphy and Margaret Caulfield. Margaret Caulfield died *603about tbe year 1896, Anna Murphy died in the year 1901, and Ellen White died in June,…
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