Brown v. McGee
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 48 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM FAYETTE CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Myers’s Supplement, page 735. 1 Bush, 62, Estill v. Rogers. 2 Bush, 278, Stewart, &c. v. Munchandler. 11 Bush, 23, Whitesides v. Allen, &c. CITED Act of Feh. 14, 1866, Myers’s Supp., p. 735. 1 Bush-, 62, Estill v. Rogers. 2 Bush, 278, Stewart, &c. v. Munchandler. 7 Bush, 654, Ewing v. Bibb. 11 Bush, 23, Whitsides v. Allen, &c.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivered the opinion oe the court.
Jeff. McGee, a free man of color, died in the city of Lexington in the year 1872, leaving surviving him his widow, Huldah, and six children, and also the appellant Mary Brown, who claims to be a child of Jeff, by his first wife. He died intestate and the owner of real estate valued at about $2,000.
In January, 1873, Mary, who had intermarried with Brown, instituted the present action in the Fayette Circuit Court to recover an undivided interest of one seventh in her father’s *430real estate, alleging a marriage between her mother and Jeff, in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Whitesides v. AllenCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1874
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