Bowman v. Wickliffe
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 14. APPEAL FROM NELSON CIRCUIT. Case stated. Charles A. Wickliffe being the owner of two hundred acres of land, beingpart of a survpy of 2,400 acres patented to William Coons, in Nelson county, Kentucky, and lying near to Bardstown; and also the owner of fifty acres, part of tbe same tract, in a distant part of the survey from the 200 acres, filed his petition in the Nelson Circuit Court to cause to be opened a passway from the 200 acres to the fifty acres, alleging a…
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Case 14. APPEAL FROM NELSON CIRCUIT. Case stated. Charles A. Wickliffe being the owner of two hundred acres of land, beingpart of a survpy of 2,400 acres patented to William Coons, in Nelson county, Kentucky, and lying near to Bardstown; and also the owner of fifty acres, part of tbe same tract, in a distant part of the survey from the 200 acres, filed his petition in the Nelson Circuit Court to cause to be opened a passway from the 200 acres to the fifty acres, alleging a right from long use, and relying on a dedication by the original owner, Coons, of ground for such passway. It is averred…
1Opinion of the Court
On the 5th of July, 1854,
Judge Simpson
delivered the opinion of the Court, which was suspended by a petition for a re-hearing, until the 18th December, 1854, when the petition was overruled—
William Coons was the patentee of twenty-four hundred acres of land, in one body, situated in the county of Nelson. He settled upon this land more than fifty years ago. He had ten or twelve children, to each of whom he allotted and conveyed separate and distinct parcels of said land, by metes and bounds. The residue thereof, except about two hundred acres, which he reserved for his own use, he conveyed to…
2Cited by2 opinions
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- Barnett v. TooleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1934