Historic Licking Riverside Civic Ass'n v. City of Covington

LEIBSON, Justice.

“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. Cameal, Richard M. Gano and John S. Gano, the proprietors of the town, and on whose application the act was passed, had bought the land from Thomas Kennedy, and vesting the title in five persons as trustees, with power to sell the lots, as previously laid off, and to convey the titles, upon the orders and for the benefit of the proprietors. [Emphasis…