Hedger v. Rennaker
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 12 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL PROM HARRISON CIRCUIT COURT. cited chap. 63, sec. 2, Rev. Slat.,page 458 ; act of Feb. 4, 1858,1 sess.'acts, 1857-8,page 26,; 5 B. Mon., 570.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE DUVALL
delivered the opinion op the court.:
The heirs of Jonathan Hedger brought this action in October, 1857, against Rennaker, for the recovery of a small tract of land of which the plaintiffs claimed to be the owners.
The defendant in his answer denied that the plaintiffs were the owners of the land in contest, and relied upon a possession of more than twenty years as a bar to the claim of the plaintiffs.
Upon the trial evidence was introduced on both sides, conducing to show the nature and extent of the possession which each of the parties, and those under whom they respectively *256claimed,…
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