Kennedy's Heirs v. Trustees of Covington

The opinion in this case was delivered by

Chief Justice Robertson,

on the 19th of December last; but was then suspended, at the instance of counsel, and remained suspended until this day; when, some modification having been made in the mandate, the opinion and mandate were made final, as follows:

On the 8th of February, 1815, the town of Covington was established on a hundred and fifty acres of land, on the rivers Ohio and Licking, below their confluence, by an act of the Kentucky Legislature, reciting that Thomas D. Carneal, Richard M. Gano and John S. Gano, the proprietors of the town, and on…