Tucker v. Phillips
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 13 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL FROM HART CIRCUIT COURT. cited 4 Hama, 406; 5 lb., 397; 11 B. Mon., 98; 14 B. Mon., 46.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Simpson
delivered the ohnion of the court :
This action was brought by the appellants to recover a tract of land in the possession of the appellee.
*417The plaintiffs in the action claimed the land under the patent of Alexander St. Clair, but failed to show themselves invested with the title of the patentee.
They also claimed it under an alleged possession of twenty years; but they wholly failed to prove that either they or their ancestor, who purchased it from Spencer Griffin in the year 1820, had ever taken the possession of it, or had even entered upon it with that intention.
Unless, therefore, they had…
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