Gentry v. Alexander

Judge Helm

Affirming.

This is an action for a declaration of rights.

Mrs. Bernice VanArsdall died April 12, 1949, the owner of a life estate in a farm of 246 acres, about two miles east of Harrodsburg on the Lexington turnpike. Rufus VanArsdall, who was the husband of Bernice VanArsdall, owned this farm at the time of his death in 1920. The farm is described as haying been in a high state of cultivation, “one of the show places of central Kentucky.” Mrs. VanArsdall was a competent farm manager, and was operating this farm under a sharecropper arrangement with Ralph Knight. Crops of corn, wheat,…