Bull v. Sevier
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 81 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE LAW AND EQUITY COURT. 1. The deed of an infant married woman is not void, but voidable only. (Phillips, &e., v. Green, 3 Mar., 11). 2. Such a conveyance may be ratified by the infant after arrival at full age, and slight acts of acknowledgment are sufficient for that purpose.
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Case 81 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE LAW AND EQUITY COURT. 1. The deed of an infant married woman is not void, but voidable only. (Phillips, &e., v. Green, 3 Mar., 11). 2. Such a conveyance may be ratified by the infant after arrival at full age, and slight acts of acknowledgment are sufficient for that purpose. (Phillips, &c., v. Green, 5 Mon., 345; Deason v. Boyd, l'Dana, 45; Middleton v. Hodge, 5 Bush, 478.) 3. The right of an infant after attaining majority to disaffirm such contract must be actively exercised, and it can not thus be done without a return of the…
1Opinion of the Court
JUBGE HOLT
delivered the opinion op the court.
This is an unhappy family contest between the mother upon the one side, and the daughter and her husband upon the other.
In 1870 a valuable house and lot in the city of Louisville was conveyed to the appellant, Mary Bull, then the wife of John Bull. The habendum clause of the deed reads thus : “ To have and to hold said property unto “ the said Mary Ann Bull, with full and complete power “ in her to dispose of the same, with the consent of her “ husband, John Bull, either by deed or last will and tes- “ tament; but in the event said property is not…
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