Mantle v. Beal
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 18 — LIMITATION APPEAL PROM BALLARD COMMON PLEAS COURT. 1. The Legislature evidently had a purpose in passing the statute of limitations, and that purpose was to shorten the time on which certain actions for the recovery of real estate should bo brought. 2. By all previous statutes of limitation in regard to land, the existence of disabilities had the effect to prevent their running until they were removed. 3. Therefore, under the thirty years statute, in all cases…
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Case 18 — LIMITATION APPEAL PROM BALLARD COMMON PLEAS COURT. 1. The Legislature evidently had a purpose in passing the statute of limitations, and that purpose was to shorten the time on which certain actions for the recovery of real estate should bo brought. 2. By all previous statutes of limitation in regard to land, the existence of disabilities had the effect to prevent their running until they were removed. 3. Therefore, under the thirty years statute, in all cases where persons enter as pur-chasers, live on and cultivate the land for that length of time, no action can be brought to…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE PRYOR
delivebbd the opinion of the court.
This was an action of ejectment, the appellees claiming under the patent of one Leven Gallie. The patentee died more than fifty years before this action was instituted, leaving one child married, Alice, who married Edward Beal in the year 1830. They had several children, and the plaintiff (appellee) purchased all the interest of his brothers and sisters in the land, making-him, so far as they were concerned, the real owner. Beal and his wife died in the year 1878, having first-sold the land by title bond through an agent to the vendors of their…
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