Blackwell v. Townsend
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 110 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL PROM MADISON COURT OE COMMON PLEAS. 1. The judgments confirming the sale and approving the conveyance of the land are valid and binding, and operate to bar by estoppel all the parties to the record, notwithstanding previous errors and irregularities of the court.
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Case 110 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL PROM MADISON COURT OE COMMON PLEAS. 1. The judgments confirming the sale and approving the conveyance of the land are valid and binding, and operate to bar by estoppel all the parties to the record, notwithstanding previous errors and irregularities of the court. (Dawson v. Litsey, 10 Bush, 411; Logan v. Steele’s Heirs, 7 Mon., 102; Wagner v. Dubois, 19 Ohio, 104; Wilson v. Smith, 22 Gratt., 503; Gemmell v. Heed, 13 Minn., 403; 7 Robertson’s Practice, 15; Jennings v. Stafford, 1 Ired., 406; Choteau v. NucUolds, 20 Mo., 445; Sheldon v. Newton, 3 Ohio St.,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE BENNETT
delivered the opinion op the court.
The administrator of James Townsend, deceased, brought an action in the Estill Circuit Court to sell his decedent’s land to pay his debts. The following is the only statement of title to the land or description of it given in the petition: “That said James Townsend, Sr., was seized and possessed, at the time of his death, of a tract of-acres of land lying in this (Estill) county, and the same whereon he resided at the time of his death.”
No title papers appear in the pleadings; nor is there any paper filed with the pleadings that shows a…
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