Legal Opinion

Mattingly's heirs v. Read

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided January 7, 1861PublishedCited by 7 opinions

CASE 15 — PETITION EQUITY — APPEAL FROM DAVIESS CIRCUIT COURT. " cited 16 B. Mon., 491; 2 Met., 210; Rev. Statutes, 592, sub sec. 2 of sec. 1; lb., sub-sec. 2 of sec. 2; 16 B. Mon., 296. cited 2 Metcalfe, 516;’18 B. Mon., 491 ; Rev. Stat., chap. 86, art. 3; Y8 B. Mon., 561; Civil Code, sec. 56; 18 B. Mon., 782.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Stites

This was a proceeding to sell infants lands, had under chapter 86, Revised Statutes, 2d vol. Stanton, 304.

*525A sale was made, and Read, one of the purchasers — who refused to give bond for the purchase money — procured an order setting aside the sale as to him. Of this order appellants complain.

The grounds relied upon by Read in the circuit court, and upon which the order seems to have been founded, relate wholly to defects in the commissioner’s report, touching the value and profits of the estate of the infants, and the propriety of a sale of the land, which the chapter, supra, requires to be…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Begelfer v. NajarianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
  2. Finnegan v. City of FernandinaSupreme Court of Florida · 1875
  3. Medlock v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1927
  4. Lee v. PageCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1876
  5. State ex rel. Palmer v. HickmanMontana Supreme Court · 1892

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