SAULSBERRY v. MADDIX

Nos. 8752, 8768.

125 F.2d 430 (1942)

SAULSBERRY v. MADDIX et al. MADDIX et al. v. SAULSBERRY.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

February 4, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. R. Dysard, of Ashland, Ky. (Dysard & Dysard, of Ashland, Ky., on the brief), for E. L. Saulsberry, appellant and cross-appellee.

H. R. Wilhoit, of Grayson, Ky., for F. M. Maddix et al., appellees and cross-appellants.

Before ALLEN, HAMILTON, and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.


HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

These appeals involve (1) the applicability of an exception narrowing and limiting the words of a deed from appellant, E. L. Saulsberry, in No. 8752 to appellee's predecessors in title, and (2) whether a deed from Mary Huntsman Griffith to appellant in No. 8752 was void because of champerty.

The facts are not in dispute and are substantially as follows:

In 1880, John R. Huntsman died intestate and left surviving him, his widow...

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