Venable v. McDonald
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Ejectmení. From the Circuit Court for Fayette County; The facts, and questions for decisión. The judg’ts and orders of inferior courts are presu- J . med to be right till the contrary appears. A nonsuit Was entered, and set aside, m tno same term; the record does not show the ground for either order: both are presumed to hays 'fceen proper.
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Ejectmení. From the Circuit Court for Fayette County; The facts, and questions for decisión. The judg’ts and orders of inferior courts are presu- J . med to be right till the contrary appears. A nonsuit Was entered, and set aside, m tno same term; the record does not show the ground for either order: both are presumed to hays 'fceen proper. An occupant,uni der an executory contract’, is a quasi tenant at will, and, though he could not pá evicted . without a previous demand of.the possession, he is not entitled to. sii months notice to quit.. , . ..... Vendor and purchaser of land may…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Robertson
delivered Ihe Opinion of the Court,
George McDonald sued James Venable in ejectment, ’ tor about one hundred and thirteen acres of land, which the latter had Occupied about eighteen years, under a parol gift from his father, Abraham Venable, and obtained a judgment for eviction: to reverse which this appeal is prosecuted;
McDonald derived title by deed from Abraham Venable in 1822; which the appellant resisted, chiefly on the ground that his father had, by a prior deed of mortgage, conveyed the same land to McDonald and one George Norton. This latter deed conveyed two hundred and fofty-five…
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