Gilbert v. Bartlett
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 11 — PROBATE OE WILL APPEAL PROM JEPPERSON COUNTY COURT. CITED ' New Constitution of Kentucky, art. 4, sec. 33 (1 Stanton’s Revised Statutes, 138). Code of Practice, chap. 4, sec. 28, and subsections 1, 3, and 10, pages 11 and 12. Code, secs. 520, 521. 2Stanton’s R. S. 523-530, 527-530. 1Morehead & Brown’s Digest, 510-512, 504. 1 Stanton’s R. S., chap. 27, art. 22, pp. 330-332. 2 Stanton’s R. S., chap. 106, sec. 27, p. 465; and sec. 40, p. 469. 1 Stanton’s R. S., chap.…
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Case 11 — PROBATE OE WILL APPEAL PROM JEPPERSON COUNTY COURT. CITED ' New Constitution of Kentucky, art. 4, sec. 33 (1 Stanton’s Revised Statutes, 138). Code of Practice, chap. 4, sec. 28, and subsections 1, 3, and 10, pages 11 and 12. Code, secs. 520, 521. 2Stanton’s R. S. 523-530, 527-530. 1Morehead & Brown’s Digest, 510-512, 504. 1 Stanton’s R. S., chap. 27, art. 22, pp. 330-332. 2 Stanton’s R. S., chap. 106, sec. 27, p. 465; and sec. 40, p. 469. 1 Stanton’s R. S., chap. 37, art. 1, sec. 1. 1 Stanton’s R. S., sec. 27, art. 19, p. 327. 1 Stanton’s R. S., chap. 21, sec. 4, p. 260. 1…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivered the opinion oe the court.
John Gilbert died some years since, leaving a paper purporting to be his last will and testament, by which the appellee V. R. Bartlett was made his executor. The appellee, having possession of the paper, presented it to the County Court of Jefferson (where Gilbert resided at his death) for probate. The offer to probate was resisted by many if not all the heirs of the decedent, as well, as the beneficiaries of that instrument. Upon the hearing in the county court on the issue of devisavit vel non, it was adjudged that the paper presented for…
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