Waters v. Cline
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 78. — ACTION BY MARTHA WATERS AGAINST W. H. CLINE AND OTHERS TO RECOVER LAND AND OTHER PROPERTY ON A PAROL AGRE'EMjENT TO DEVISE SAME TO HER FOR SERVICES WHILE RESIDING WITH HER UNCLE. Appeal from Campbell Circuit Court. A. S. Berry Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiff appeals. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES CITED. 1. Error of the court in sustaining exceptions to certain.
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Case 78. — ACTION BY MARTHA WATERS AGAINST W. H. CLINE AND OTHERS TO RECOVER LAND AND OTHER PROPERTY ON A PAROL AGRE'EMjENT TO DEVISE SAME TO HER FOR SERVICES WHILE RESIDING WITH HER UNCLE. Appeal from Campbell Circuit Court. A. S. Berry Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiff appeals. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES CITED. 1. Error of the court in sustaining exceptions to certain. Questions and answers in the deposition of Elizabeth Rogers taken on behalf of appellant, Martha Waters. (William Hunter, Adm’r a. Marsh, 2 Ky. Law,Rep., 241, 81 Ky., 10.) 2. Appellant Martha Walters’ suit is in…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Chief Justice Hobson
Reversing,
*615Appellant, Martha Waters, was the niece of the wife of John Cline, of Kenton county, Ky. The Clines had no children. In March, 1872, Cline and wife went on a visit to Mrs. Cline’s sister, Mrs. Eogers, near Brookville, Ind. Mrs. Eogers and her husband and their daughter Mattie (now Mrs. Waters), constituted the family. Mrs. Cline was in poor health— had heart trouble and asthma — and she and her husband were both very fond of Mattie, who was then a girl about thirteen years old. They proposed to her parents that if they would l'et her come and live with…
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