Chaney v. Flynn
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
APPEAL FROM ESTILL CIRCUIT COURT. [Cited, Baker v. Hines, 102 Ky. 329, 19 Ky. L. 1354, 43 S. W. 452; Holloway’s Assignee v. Rudy, 22 Ky. L. 1406, 6 S. W. 650, 53 L. R. A. 353; Rupple v. Kissel, 24 Ky. L. 2371, 48 S. W. 40.]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge Hargis.
Allen Flynn left Kentucky in 1851 or 1852 and removed to Arkansas. At that time he owned about 1400 acres of land in the *165county of Estill. Fie appointed his brother, Levi Flynn, his agent to rent and care for the land during his absence. He died in Arkansas during the year 1868, leaving the female appellant his only heir at law. She married, and in 1869 she and her husband wrote to Levi Flynn to sell the 1400 acres. He offered her $1,000' for it, and she agreed, by letter, to take it under certain payments. Immediately he enclosed, in a letter accepting her proposition,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Baker v. HinesCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1897
3Cited by2 opinions
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- Baker v. HinesCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1897