Jackson v. Payne's executors
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 54 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL FROM FAYETTE CIRCDIT COURT. cited 1 Story’s Equity, secs. 180-1-2; 3 Vesey, 106; Jb., 309 ; lb., 255-6 ; 2 Brown’s Chan. Rep., 18. cited 18 B. Mon., 260; Civil Code, secs. 125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 690, 691; Rev. Stat., sec. 3, chap. 24, p. 279.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Simpson
delivered the ofinion'of the court:
This action was brought by the executors of Henry C. Payne against John Jackson, on a note for $4,100 75, which he executed to them, for the last installment of the purchase money of a tract of land, which they, as executors aforesaid, had sold to him.
The defendant alleged in his answer that the will of Henry O. Payne, which he exhibited, “ contemplated and intended an *568equal distribution of his estate among all his children, but through inadvertence and mistake in estimates of amounts advanced, his will, if literally carried out, would leave defendant’s…
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