Dulaney v. Figg
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
case 38. — ACTION BY L. R. FIGO AND OTHERS AGAINST MARY DULANEY AND OTHERS TO ENFORCE LIENS FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT. — Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court, (Chancery Branch, 1st Division.) Shackelford Miller, Judge. Judgment for Plaintiffs. Defendants appeal. PROPOSITIONS INVOLVED. 1. A married woman can not make a parole dedication of her lands or of any interest therein to the public.
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case 38. — ACTION BY L. R. FIGO AND OTHERS AGAINST MARY DULANEY AND OTHERS TO ENFORCE LIENS FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT. — Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court, (Chancery Branch, 1st Division.) Shackelford Miller, Judge. Judgment for Plaintiffs. Defendants appeal. PROPOSITIONS INVOLVED. 1. A married woman can not make a parole dedication of her lands or of any interest therein to the public. (Robinson v. Robinson, 11 Bush, 176 Parsons v. Spencer, 83 Ky., 311; Green v. Page, 80 Ky., 368; Parsons on Contracts, Vol. 1, page 391-473; Van Zant v.Weir, 109 Ala., 104; Lewis on Eminent Domain, Vol. 2, page…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Commissioner John D. Carroll —
Affirming.
The only question in this ease is whether or not the land owned by appellants, and situated on the south side of Garland avenue, between Eighteenth and Twenty-Sixth streets, in the city of Louisville, can be subjected to the payment of the costs of improving the avenue between the streets named. The real estate sought to be subjected is a part of a tract of land conveyed to the mother of appellants in 1847 who married W. H. Dulaney about 1854, and died in 1901. It appears from the record that in 1868 the territory including the land in…
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