Rowe v. Shepherd

MOREMEN, Judge.

This is the second appearance of suits to quiet title to a certain tract of land in Breathitt County.

In the first case, Shepherd v. Rowe, Ky., 243 S.W.2d 915, Shepherd sought specific performance of a contract he had entered into with Pearlie Rowe to convey this tract of land. George Rowe and other children of Pearlie Rowe intervened and claimed to be the rightful owners of the land by reason of descent from their father, Galen Rowe. It was claimed that Pearlie Rowe had record title to the tract only because of an altered deed and that the deed as originally written would have…