Legal Opinion

Bradley v. Ky. Central Oil Co.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided May 2, 1885Published

APPEAL FROM GRAYSON CIRCUIT COURT.

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Judge Pryor:

The appellants are resisting the recovery in this case upon the single ground that the original patent to May is void for uncertainty.

They are without title or even the right of entry and the appellee having shown a chain of title from commonwealth down was entitled to the judgment rendered.

The patents to May contained 51,500 acres with a well defined boundary containing a reservation as to certain lands already entered by other parties and whose names and the quantity of the land entered are found in the face of the patent. The jury found that no part of the land…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Hamilton v. FugettCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1881

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