101 Ky. 52 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1897
delivered the opinion op the court;
This is an action brought by appellant Blakely against appellees, Quinlan, &c., in the law and equity division of the Jefferson Circuit Court to recover the possession of a; lot in the city of Louisville, Ky., claimed under the will of John A. Blakely, and was tried by the court on an agreed statement of fact by the parties. Upon judgment dismissing appellant’s petition and the overruling of his motion for new trial he has brought the case to this court, and asks a reversal.
On the 12th day of November, 1863, John A. Blakely conveyed to his mother, for and in consideration of love and affection, a certain lot in the city of Louisville, Ky., describ
John A. Blakely died about the year 1870, after having made and published his last will and testament, as follows: “Declaring this to be my last will and testament,and hereby revoking and annulling all other last wills and testaments heretofore made by me, I now devise and bequeath all the money and estate and property of every kind, to which I may be entitled at the time of my death, to William Wallace Hall, a boy over eighteen months of age, now residing with me and who is my son.”
Mary Blakely, the mother of John A. Blakely, died in 1894, and having, by her last will and testament, devised the lot described in the deed from John A. Blakely to her to. the appellee, Quinlan, it is claimed by appellee that by the will of John Blakely the title to this lot was not devised to the appellant, and that by his will the testator only intended to devise such estate as he owned in possession, and upon the death of John A. Blakely the title in fee passed by descent to Mary Blakely, testator’s mother, as next of bin.
We are of opinion that by the deed of John A. Blakely he
There is no ambiguity in the language of the will, therefore, there is no room to hear oral testimony to: explain what the testator intended.
The judgment is reversed and cause remanded, with directions to grant appellant a new trial.