Thomas v. Thomas' Guardian

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Richardson—

Reversing.

William Barnett, a resident of the city of Marion, Crittenden county, Ky., executed a will devising, after the payment of his debts and funeral expense, his personal estate to his widow, Mary Barnett, and his two daughters, Kate and Esther Barnett. He devised his real estate, subject to the dower right of his widow, to his daughters for life, with the proviso that if either of them died without surviving issue, the survivor to take for life the real estate devised to the deceased daughter; if, on the death of his daughters, or either of them,…