Alexander v. Woodford Spring Lake Fishing Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 36 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM WOODFORD COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. 1. To enable one to set up a title by estoppel, it must appear (1) that the party making the admission by declaration or conduct was apprised of the true state of his own title; (2; that he made the admission with intent to deceive, or with such culpable and careless negligence as to amount to constructive fraud; (3) that the other party was not only destitute of all knowledge of the true stale of the…
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Case 36 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM WOODFORD COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. 1. To enable one to set up a title by estoppel, it must appear (1) that the party making the admission by declaration or conduct was apprised of the true state of his own title; (2; that he made the admission with intent to deceive, or with such culpable and careless negligence as to amount to constructive fraud; (3) that the other party was not only destitute of all knowledge of the true stale of the title, but of all means of acquiring such knowledge, as by recourse to records, and further, that he relied directly on such…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivered the opinion op the court.
A number of citizens living, in or near the town of' Versailles formed themselves into a joint stock company, with a view of constructing a pond and stocking it with fish. The corporation was known as theWoodford Spring Lake Company, with a capital stock of two thousand five hundred dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each. It purchased, through its chief officers,, a site for the dam from Charles Alexander and. A. C. Hunter, obtaining deeds that were duly executed and recorded, with the relinquishment on the part of the-wife of each grantor, and…
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