Justice v. Justice
Decision Date | 26 May 1916 |
Citation | 186 S.W. 148,170 Ky. 423 |
Parties | JUSTICE v. JUSTICE ET AL. |
Court | Kentucky Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Pike County.
Suit by Dorcas Justice and her infant children against W. H. Justice. From a judgment quieting the title of the children to the land in suit, and adjudging that defendant acquired Dorcas Justice's life estate, and was entitled to the land during her lifetime, defendant appeals, and Dorcas Justice prosecutes a cross-appeal. Judgment affirmed on both appeals.
J. J Moore, and J. F. Butler, both of Pikeville, for appellant.
Stratton & Stephenson, of Pikeville, and Lewis A. Nuckols, of Frankfort, for appellee.
On October 6, 1879, Abner Justice, Sr., executed and delivered to his granddaughter, Dorcas Thacker, now Dorcas Justice, a deed to a tract of land in Pike county. The material parts of the deed are as follows:
In the year 1895 the grantee in the above deed, Dorcas Justice (formerly Thacker) and her husband conveyed to W. H. Justice the land described in the deed. As consideration therefor they received from W. H. Justice a conveyance to other land. At the time of their conveyance Dorcas Justice and her husband were both infants. Some time after they reached their majority they sold and conveyed to a third party...
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