Continental Realty Co. v. Harvey

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Turner

'Reversing.

On tbe 9th. of July, 1879, there was issued to Samuel Harvey, a patent for a tract of land on Bear Branch in' BreatMtt County, Kentucky, under a survey made several years previously. He seems to have claimed tMs land before the patent was actually issued, for on the 29th day of October, 1878, he entered into a writing, by the terms of wMch, he contracted and sold fifty (50) acres of laud on the left fork of that branch to James Hudson. At or prior to the sale to Hudson, Samuel Harvey had been tbe owner of what is known as the Marshall survey…