Kevil v. Kevil

JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered tiie opinion op the court:

Thomas Kevil, of Caldwell county, Kentucky, in June, 1855, when he was seventy-one years" old, published as his will a testamentary document, whereby he disposed of his whole estate — worth about $50,000 — unequally among his children, by two wives, giving to those of his first wrife comparatively but little, and the residue to those of his then living wife, much younger than himself, and to whom he devised the most of it during her life.

After probate in the county court, the document — re-contested in the circuit court for the alleged…