Clore v. Argue

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

Ella Clore Barrett, in the sixty-first year of her life, died in Henderson, Kentucky, on November 3, 1922. She left no issue, and her father and mother were dead. Under the statutes, her estate would have been divided into nine shares, one-ninth would have gone to a surviving brother, four-ninths would have gone to surviving sisters, two-ninths would have gone to the issue of two deceased brothers, and two-ninths- to the issue of deceased sisters.

She left a paper executed July 23, 1913, devising practically her entire estate to her niece, Ella…