Moore v. Williamson's

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

— Reversing.

In 1905 Kinney Tyler, apparently a thrifty negro man, was engaged with his partner in the undertaking business in Hopkinsville, In November of that year, desiring a better place for the conduct of the undertaking business, he bought from the Postel estate for one thous- and dollars a lot in that city, the Planters Bank & Trust Co. acting as executor or agent for the Postel estate in the transaction.

Tyler paid no part of the consideration but executed his two notes for five hundred dollars each for the purchase money. Thereafter he…