Fox v. Cornett
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 20 — ACTION BY MARY A. FOX AND OTHERS AGAINST A. B. CORNETT TO QUIET TITLE TO LAND.— Appeal from Harlan Circuit Court. M. J. Moss, Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of ti-ie Court by
John D. Carroll, Com-
missioner
Affirming.
This suit was brought by appellants, plaintiffs below, to quiet the title to an undivided one-third of 925 acres of land in Harlan county, to which they asserted title by virtue of a purchase from the heirs of Hezekiah Branson, who' obtained a patent for this body of land in 1851, under a survey made in 1848. The deed conveying this interest was executed in 1889 and recorded in 1890. Appellee filed an answer and counter-claim, traversing the petition, and alleging in the counter-claim that he was the owner of and in the…
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