Grooms v. Grooms

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

This is an action under the Declaratory Judgment Act, section 639a-l et seq., Civil Code.

C. B. Grooms died intestate in the year 1916, the owner of a house and lot located in the town of Russell, Ky. He left surviving him two children, the appellants, Clifford Grooms and Virginia Grooms, and his wife, the appellee Alice Grooms. At the time of his death, the children were three and four years of age, respectively. His widow, Alice Grooms, qualified as administratrix of his estate, and on June 29, 1917, filed an action in equity in the Greenup circuit…