Trustees of Augusta v. Perkins
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Appeal From the Bracken Circuit. Ejectment. Case 118.
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Breck
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the appellee, in an action of ejectment brought by the appellants, for the public square in the Town of Augusta.
Various errors are assigned, preliminary to the consideration of which it will be necessary to advert to the facts as they appeared upon the trial.
Facts appearing in the record.
In 1797, the County Court of the County of Bracken, on motion of Philip Buckner, the proprietor, condemned six hundred acres of land, by metes and bounds; vested the same in Trustees, and established the Town of…
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