Bates v. Bates

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming upon both, tbe original and cross appeal.

Owen Mullins, a resident of Knott county, Kentucky, died intestate about 1884 in possession of a large boundary of land wbicb be bad resided upon and claimed to own under several conveyances and wbicb bad been recognized as bis without dispute for nearly thirty years. He left surviving him bis widow and six children,- one of whom was Anzy Bates, tbe wife of appellant, who survived her father but a short time, leaving, in addition to her husband, four little children whose ages ranged from two to eleven…