Ridley v. Dedman
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 21. — SUIT BY MADGE W. DEDMAN IN HER OWN RIGHT AND AS TRUSTEE FOR HERSELF AND CHILDREN AGAINST JAMES WEBB RIDLEY AND ANOTHER Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court (Chancery Branch, First Division). From the judgment defendants appeal. — It lias been said “that lawyers can with ease, twist words and meanings as they please; and that language by their skill made pliant, will bend to favor every client.”- And while this court must of necessity be composed of lawyers, yet…
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CASE 21. — SUIT BY MADGE W. DEDMAN IN HER OWN RIGHT AND AS TRUSTEE FOR HERSELF AND CHILDREN AGAINST JAMES WEBB RIDLEY AND ANOTHER Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court (Chancery Branch, First Division). From the judgment defendants appeal. — It lias been said “that lawyers can with ease, twist words and meanings as they please; and that language by their skill made pliant, will bend to favor every client.”- And while this court must of necessity be composed of lawyers, yet under (all the flexibility of the law, I can not of myself discern, with any kind of microscopic observation of this case,…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
Judge Carroll
— Affirming.
In 1900, in consideration of $5,000 paid by Webb Sidley, tbe then husband of Madge Eidley, now Dedman, there was conveyed .to her as trustee a house *148and lot, for the following uses and trusts: “To be used by her as a home for her and her two children,. James Webb Ridley and George Whitney Ridley, for and during her natural lifetime, and at lxer death to descend to her said two children in equal parts’, should they survive her, or to the survivors of them, the said children if either should die without leaving issue at his death, and if either of…
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