Cline v. Cline

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Overruling motion for a rule against the special judge of the Pike circuit court.

In 1916 Martha Cline, an aged widow residing in Pike county Kentucky, executed certain deeds to five of her children whereby she conveyed to each of them separate parcels of land lying near the city of Pikeville. She also executed a deed to A. D. Cline, one of her sons, but he declined to accept it. She afterwards filed this equity action in the Pike circuit court against those who accepted their deeds seeking a cancellation of them on the ground that at the time they were…