Rittenhouse v. Clark
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 18 — Action to Recover Land — APPEAL FROM FLOYD CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiffs and Defendant Appeals. Appellee, Morgan Clark, owned a farm in. Floyd county, which he desired to sell and found a purchaser in the person of John W. Porter, if he, Porter, could sell his coal and timber land.
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Case 18 — Action to Recover Land — APPEAL FROM FLOYD CIRCUIT COURT. Judgment for Plaintiffs and Defendant Appeals. Appellee, Morgan Clark, owned a farm in. Floyd county, which he desired to sell and found a purchaser in the person of John W. Porter, if he, Porter, could sell his coal and timber land. Clark sent his friend Wells to see appellant Rittenhouse and ascertain if he would buy the Porter land, which he agreed to do at the price of $2,225, for which Rittenhouse gave Porter his note for $2,050, and a check for $175. Porter bought the Clark farm and assigned him the said note and check…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
CHIEF JUSTICE PAYNTER
Affirming.
It appears from the record that previous to December 20, 1894, the appellee, Morgan 'Clark, an,d his wife, Rebecca A. Clark, either owned, or had an interest in, a certain tract of land, which they exchanged with John W. Porter fora tract of land known in this record as the “Long Branch Land.” Porter made a deed to them, by the terms of which Eebecca A. Clark was vested with a life estate in it, with a certain character of remainder to her children, with the right in Morgan Clark .to control it during his life time. . This deed was not…
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