Commonwealth v. Gatliff
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Appeal from Leslie Circuit Court. L. D. Lewis, Circuit Judge. From a judgment of the circuit court on appeal from the county court, the Commonwealth appeals. AUTHORITIES CITED. Eastern Kentucky Coal Lands Corporation v. Commonwealth, 32 Ky. Law Rep. 129, 106 S. W. 260; McCormick v. McCormick, 6 Ky.
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Appeal from Leslie Circuit Court. L. D. Lewis, Circuit Judge. From a judgment of the circuit court on appeal from the county court, the Commonwealth appeals. AUTHORITIES CITED. Eastern Kentucky Coal Lands Corporation v. Commonwealth, 32 Ky. Law Rep. 129, 106 S. W. 260; McCormick v. McCormick, 6 Ky. Law Rep. 585 (abstract). Acts of 1906, chapter 22, article 3, page 116; Southern Lumber Company v. Wireman, 41 S. W. 297 to 299; Anderson v. Likens, 47 S. W. 867 to 869; Banks v, Sergent, 48 S. W. 150; Combs v. Eversole, 70 S. W. 638 to 639; Asher v. Uhl, 87 S. W. 307 to 310; Anderson’s Dictionary…
1Opinion of the Court
*97Opinion op the Court by
Judge O’Rear
Reversing-
Appellee was the owner or claimant by a title of record of some 90 grants, of 200 acres each, issued to De Groot, Meredith, T'hickston, and Carmichael in the year 1870.. The patents were taken out to cover solid bodies of land, and without reference to interference from older grants covering the samé boundary, and without attention to claimants in possession, who might or might not have been entitled to notice and to pre-empt a certain quantity allowed by statute to actual settlers. The title claimed by appellee and his vendors had not been listed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Eastern Ky. Coal Lands Corp. v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1907
3Cited by2 opinions
- Bronaugh v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1920
- Wilson v. ChappellCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1932