Patrick v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

The Commonwealth, through the attorney of the Commonwealth, in the district of which Knott county is a part, in December, 1917, instituted this proceeding in the circuit court of that county against appellant and a number of other defendants, some of whom were the unknown owners or claimants to one or more of a large number of patents issued by this Commonwealth to Kiar Webb in August, 1866, all of them lying, as alleged, in Knott county.

The proceeding is under the provisions- of the act of 1906, the same being…