Poetter v. Poetter

Opinion of the Court by

Sims, Commissioner

Partly affirmed and partly reversed.

Tim appellant, H. J. Poetter, 77 years of age, instituted this suit in the chancery branch of the Jefferson Circuit Court against his son, E. J. Poetter, 44 years of age, 'seeking an accounting on numerous business transactions and personal matters between them covering a period of about eight years. In this opinion we will refer to the appellant as the plaintiff and to the appellee as the defendant.

The wife of the plaintiff, and mother of the defendant, died in 1928, but the father and son continued to maintain…