Bevins v. Damron

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Baird

Affirming.

Appelllant, J. Mont Bevins, and appellees, A. R. Damron and Lilly Damron, owned adjoining tracts of land situated in Pike County, Kentucky.

On the 25th day of April, 1934, appellees filed their joint petition in equity in the Pike circuit court alleging that they were the owners and in the actual possession of a tract of land describing it by metes and bounds; that appellant was giving out in word and speech that he had a claim on a part of their land and was thereby casting a cloud upon their title which depreciated the value thereof and deterred…