Rau v. Rowe's Administratrix

OpirtoN of the Couet by

Judge TurNer

— Reversing.

H. L. Rau was a native of Germany, came to this country in Ms youth, and thereafter changed his name to Rowe.

He and Nellie B. Rowe were married in 1882, and shortly thereafter settled in Lexington. They seem to have been a thrifty couple, and together with his income from his occupation as an architect and an inheritance of hers of about $2,500.00 or $3,000.00 they acquired considerable real- estate in the city of Lexington.

At the time of his death in January, 1913, he owned the fee simple title to a valuable house and lot in that city; she owned…