Case ID: ky-op_10/html/0887-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Cofer :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mary M. Myers v. H. Marcus, et al.
    [Abstract Kentucky Law Reporter, Vol. 1 — 416.]
    Lease for Years a Mere Chattel.
    A lease .for years is only a chattel, and although in the wife’s name, not being expressly stated to be for her separate use, is as much the property of the husband as any other chattel acquired in her name.
    APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT.
    
      Kohn & Barker, for appellant.
    
    
      F. Hagan, O. A. Weble, Russell & Helm, for appellees.
    
    November 23, 1880.
   Opinion by

Judge Cofer :

A lease for years is only a chattel (see Sec. 13, Chap. 21, Gen. Stat.; Wilgus v. Commonwealth, 9 Bush 556), and although in the name of the wife (not being expressed to be for her separate use) is as much the property of the husband as any other chattel acquired in her name.

The leasehold being the property of the husband the improvements upon it are his also, and whether the judgment be right or not it does not affect her property rights, and as she alone appeals, it must be affirmed.