Case ID: ky-op_5/html/0433-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William Short's Ex'r v. Catherine Short, etc.
    Wills — Sale of Real Estate to Provide Income for Wife — Funds to be Raised Not Devised.
    Where a will directs the sale of the testator’s real estate to provide an income for the use of the widow for life, neither the principal funds to «rise from the sale nor the personal property is devised.
    APPEAL PROM HARDIN CIRCUIT COURT.
    May 15, 1871.
    
      Brown & Murray, for appellant.
    
   Opinion by

Judge Hardin:

As we construe the will of William Short, it simply authorizes the sale and conversion of the testator’s real estate to provide an income for the use of his widow for life, charged also with the provisions made in the will for his children; and that neither the principal funds to arise from the sales of land, nor the personal estate was devised.

The opinion and judgment of the Circuit Court being inconsistent with this construction of the will, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for a judgment in conformity with this opinion.