Case ID: ky-op_10/html/0475-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Pryor :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thomas H. Ellis, et al., v. James Hite, et al.
    Life Tenant Liable for Taxes.
    
      'Where real estate is held by one for life and by others in remainder, under a sale made for taxes, the purchaser cannot hold the interest of the remaindermen. The life tenant is alone liable for the taxes, and if the purchaser at tax sale obtained any title it was but the life estate.
    APPEAL PROM NELSON CIRCUIT COURT.
    
      Muir & Wickliffe, for appellants.
    
    
      C. T. Atkinson, for appellees.
    
    January 23, 1880.
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Judge Pryor :

The husband of one of the parties entitled in remainder (or his heirs) is endeavoring' to claim the real estate in controversy under a sale made for taxes, and to hold it against the other devisees. The life tenant was alone liable for the taxes, and all the title appellants’ ancestor obtained, if any, was the life estate; and if not, the purchase by appellants’ ancestor would enure to the benefit of all under the proof in this case, and after refunding the money advanced, if any, the estate would be divided according to the provisions of the will.

Judgment affirmed.