Legal Opinion

Lilly v. Curry's

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided February 19, 1869PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Case 80 — PETITION EQUITY — CITED 5 J. J. Marshall, 472, Sneed v. Ewing. 2 Dana, 25, Kean’s Will. 7 B. Mon. 291, Floyd v. Floyd. CITED Revised Statutes, sec. 16, “Wills,” 2 Stanton, 461. 5 J. J. Mar. 472, Sneed v. Ewing. 9 Dana, 25, Kean’s Will. 7 B. Mon. 291, Floyd v. Floyd. 16 Law Library, page 16, side page 269.

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE PETERS

delivered the opinion oe the court.

M. D. Curry published his will in the state of Missouri in the month of October, 1859, and died there very soon thereafter. The will was probated, and it appears in the pleading of plaintiff below that the testator bequeathed to Colonel Cogswell, who was then a citizen of Missouri, a horse, which he describes as being then ‘ ‘ at Lilly’s, in Kentucky;” and this is all of the will that appears in the *592record, except Perry A. Curry was nominated therein as executor

In 1863 this action was brought by the executor against Pleasant Lilly for two hundred…

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