Kendall v. Clarke
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 29 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM FLEMING CIRCUIT COURT. 1. It was error to render judgment against the administrator without an affidavit purging the claim of usury. (Matthews v. Jones, 2 Met., 255.) 2. To enforce a lien on land, those who have the legal title must be before the court.
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Case 29 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM FLEMING CIRCUIT COURT. 1. It was error to render judgment against the administrator without an affidavit purging the claim of usury. (Matthews v. Jones, 2 Met., 255.) 2. To enforce a lien on land, those who have the legal title must be before the court. (Smith v. West’s ExT, 5 Litt., 48; Edwards v. Bohannon, 2 Dana, 98; Thornton v. Knox’s ExT, 6 B. M., 74; Anderson v. Sutton, 2 Duv., 486.) 3. Declarations which were against the interest of the declarant at the time they were made were admissible. (Greenleaf on Evidence, sec. 194; Crane v. Gumm, 4 B. M.,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Lewis
Appellee, John Clarke, instituted this action May 1, 1885, to recover judgment as assignee on a note for two hundred dollars, payable December 25, 1869, by A. J. Royse to Nancy A. Jones, in part consideration for a tract of one hundred and eighty-eight acres of land, and to enforce vendor’s lien as well upon seventy-six acres thereof sold to one Ham, who afterwards sold to appellant, Campbell, as upon the residue of the tract owned by Royse, now deceased, when the action was commenced.
It is obvious more than fifteen years had elapsed from the time the note fell due until the action was…
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