Swinebroad v. Wood
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 89. — ACTION BY MAGGIE S. WOOD AND ANOTHER AGAINST KATE B. SWINEBROAD AND ANOTHER TO RECOVER LAND AND RENTS. — Appeal from Lincoln Circuit Court. W. C. Bell, Circuit Judge. Judgment for Plaintiffs. Defendants appeal.
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Case 89. — ACTION BY MAGGIE S. WOOD AND ANOTHER AGAINST KATE B. SWINEBROAD AND ANOTHER TO RECOVER LAND AND RENTS. — Appeal from Lincoln Circuit Court. W. C. Bell, Circuit Judge. Judgment for Plaintiffs. Defendants appeal. CONTENTION BY APPELLANTS. 1. The alleged deed was never delivered to any of the grantees at any time. 3.It was never accepted by either one of the grantees at any time. 3. It was void for champerty, when executed and, when placed in the county clerks office for record, it was not placed there by Greenberry Bright. 4. Appellant Kate B. Swinebroad, received the land as a gift…
1Opinion of the Court
*667Opinion by
Judge Nunn
Reversing.
Greenberry Bright was a man in good fínanciál circumstances, and owned between 1,500 and 2,000 acres of valuable land in Lincoln county. He had four or five children, the appellant Kate B. Swinebroad being one of them. In the latter part of the year 1882 he purchased 200 acres of land at the price of about $2,000, and placed his daughter, Kate, with her husband and two children, in possession of it, and they have been in the actual possession of it ever since, except the year 1886, when they rented and occupied a small farm in that vicinity. The cause of this…
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