Ray v. Sweeney
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
APPEAL PROM GARRARD COMMON PLEAS'COURT. 1. The English doctrine of ancient lights and implied grants has no application in this state. Our ancestors did not bring with them all the English common law, but only so much of it as suited the condition of this country.
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APPEAL PROM GARRARD COMMON PLEAS'COURT. 1. The English doctrine of ancient lights and implied grants has no application in this state. Our ancestors did not bring with them all the English common law, but only so much of it as suited the condition of this country. (1 Tucker’s Blackstone, 8, 9.) If not repealed by the Revised and General Statutes the English doctrine is inconsistent with natural justice, and hence must be considered as not adapted to this country. 2. When Sweeney built his house upon the line of his lot, and left a door there, he knew that Ray, the owner of the adjacent lot,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE COFER
delivered the opinion oe the court.
The appellee is the owner of a lot in the town of Lancaster on which is situated a storehouse. In the rear of the storehouse is a room used as a tailor’s shop and counting-room. The north end of the counting-room abuts on a house owned by the appellant, and the walls of the two houses extend to the division-line between their respective proprietors. The west wall of appellee’s store and counting-room extends to his line on that side, and a building extending along the whole length *6of that line excludes from his counting-room- light and air on that…
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