WATKINS v. WHITIS


267 S.W.2d 728 (1954)

WATKINS et al. v. WHITIS et al.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

April 30, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Hamm, Murray L. Brown, Brown & Bird, Boyd F. Taylor, Jr., London, for appellants.

William J. Weaver, J. Milton Luker, London, for appellees.


SIMS, Chief Justice.

This action was brought to recover damages arising out of an alleged "false scheme" of the appellants, whereby appellees had been induced to render services to the principal appellant, Lucy Mack Watkins, upon her representations which led appellees to believe they would be given Miss Watkins' farm at her death. The action was tried before a jury and it returned a verdict of $12,000 for appellees, a substantial portion of which must have been for...

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