Schneider v. Jacob
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 14 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. A conveyance of land abutting on a highway or street carries the fee to the center, if the grantor has title. (Winker v. Peterson, 4 Zabriskie, 524; Paul v. Carver, 26 Penn. St.; Dodd v. Witt, 63 Mass., 139; 3 Kent’s Commentaries, 428; Warren v. Southworth, 6 Conn., 471; Peck v. Smith, 1 Conn., 103; Cox v. Ereedley, 33 Pa.
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Case 14 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. A conveyance of land abutting on a highway or street carries the fee to the center, if the grantor has title. (Winker v. Peterson, 4 Zabriskie, 524; Paul v. Carver, 26 Penn. St.; Dodd v. Witt, 63 Mass., 139; 3 Kent’s Commentaries, 428; Warren v. Southworth, 6 Conn., 471; Peck v. Smith, 1 Conn., 103; Cox v. Ereedley, 33 Pa. St., 124 ; Wood v. Appal, 63 Id., 222; Baker v. Chester Gas Co., 73 Id., 121; Robinson v. Myers, 67 Id., 17; Trutt v. Spatts, 87 Id., 341; Spaekman v. Steidel, 88 Id., 458; Delphi v. Evans, 36 Ind., 90;…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE BENNETT
delivered the opinion of the court.
Prior to 1837, John I. Jacob and Garnett Duncan, preparatory to selling a piece of land which they owned adjoining the city of Louisville, laid the same off into lots, streets and alleys. They also prepared and recorded in the county court clerk’s office a map or plat, which designated the said lots, streets and alleys. On the plat this piece of ground was called “Jacob’s and Duncan’s Western Addition.”
In this “addition,” Main street was laid off, which was designated on the map as running east and west, and Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth, and…
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