Ison v. Cornett
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Cass 8 — Action by R. N. Cornett against William: Ison and Others to Quiet Title to His Hand. APPEAL FROM HARLAN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendants Appeal. About .twenty years ago John M. Creech died, leaving a widow, who has 'since married William Ison and daughter, Pasha, who> has since married George Ison, and alsoi a son, Joseph Creech.
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Cass 8 — Action by R. N. Cornett against William: Ison and Others to Quiet Title to His Hand. APPEAL FROM HARLAN CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendants Appeal. About .twenty years ago John M. Creech died, leaving a widow, who has 'since married William Ison and daughter, Pasha, who> has since married George Ison, and alsoi a son, Joseph Creech. He owned four tracts of land which were divided between his two children, Pasha Ison and Joseph Creech, subject to the widow’s dower. In November, 1896, while Pasha was still an infant, she and her husband swapped her interest in the four…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE HOBSON
Affirming.
John M. Creech died about twenty years ago, leaving a widow and two children, who were both then infants. He owned four tracts of land. Some time after his death the widow intermarried with William' Ison, and after this the daughter, Pasha, married George Ison.- In the year 1886, when she was seventeen years of age, she and her husband swapped her interest in the four tracts of land owned by her father to her stepfather, William Ison, for a tract of land in Letcher county owned by him, he paying her $50 in addition in the trade. This trade was…
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