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An Act for the benefit of John Myers. 1838 263 (1838)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0331 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF KENTUCKY. ces, notices, &c., shall have the same effect, and be acted upon 1839 in the same manner as if returned to the terms of said court, and at the times specified therein. Approved February 20, 183%. CHAr. 1296.-AN ACT for the benefit of John Myers. WHEREAS, Jacob Myers died without ever having been married, and left a last will and testament, by which he de- vised that his executors should sell lands' to pay his debts, and to raise money to buy his nephew, Lewis Myers, two negro men, and devised the residue of his estate to the children of his deceased brother; and all his lands in Bullitt county were sold to pay his debts; arid John Myers, one of the children of Lewis Myers, purchased out the interest of his brothers and sisters in the estate of Jacob Myers, and the right to the two negro men from Lewis Myers. which he has never received from the estate of said Myers: and, whereas, Peter Myers and Valentine Myers, the other two brothers of Jacob Myers, de- parted this life before the said Jacob Myers, and left children who resided in Virginia, but whose names are unknown; and the said Jacob left a tract of land on the Mississippi river, and other lands, to which the title is not disputed, and out of which the said John Myers is entitled to have the money raised to purchase the two negro men aforesaid; and it is inconvenient for the said John Myers to bring suit in the county where the lands lie, to have the same subjected to the payment of the legacy to the said Lewis Myers: and whereas the executors are dead, and it is reasonable that said John Myers should have remedy against the land for the said legacy-iherefore, SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Corn- Bill i ch'ry monwealth of Kentucky, That it shall be lawful for the said may be tiled in John Myers to file his bill in the Bullitt Circuit Court to sub- Bullitt circuit ject said land to sale, or so much thereof as will raise the mo- court, and for ney to pay said legacy, with interest from the time it ought to what purpose. have been paid, making all proper parties; and it shall be law- ful for the court to decree a sale for that purpose, and to order the amount to be paid over to the said John Myers, and to make such other orders and decrees as may be necessary to vest the purchaser with the title and to carry into effect the object of this act. Sne. 2. That the said court shall be, and is hereby, authoriz- be decrt. ed and required, when the said case shall be fully prepared for hearing, to decree partition of the real estate of said Jacob Myers amongst his heirs or devisees, or their assignees and representatives, according to their respective rights and in- terests. Approved February 20, 1839.

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