Court of Appeals of Kentucky January 17, 1861 (Ashby v. Woolfolk)

CHIEF JUSTICE STITES

delivered the opinion op the court:

Bounds Ashby died in 1831, leaving a will, whereby he devised to bis wife, during her life, his entire estate, consisting of land, slaves, and personalty, and at her death said property was to be equally divided between the testator’s children.