Houston v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle.

Affirming.

On June 10, 1911, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, by Ira Fields, Commonwealth’is Attorney of the 33d judicial district thereof, instituted in the Leslie circuit court against Horatio Nelson Sproston and others an action to forfeit, under the provisions of Article 3, Chapter 22, Acts of 1906, the title and claim of the numerous defendants named in the petition to a forty thousand acre survey of land situated in Leslie county, granted by the Commonwealth by patent No. 47832 to one John S. Sausade, the boundary being specifically set out in the…