Legal Opinion

Newsome v. Hamilton

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided February 1, 1911PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from Floyd Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the Court

*6Opinion op the Court by

Judge Nunn

Affirming.

Appellant, Newsome, filed Ms petition in the lower court averring that he was the owner and in possession of a tract of land which he described, and that appellee, Hamilton, was falsely and without right or title setting up claim to a part of it and giving it out in speech that he was the owner thereof, thereby casting a cloud upon his title, which appellant seeks by this'action to remove. Appellee asserted in his answer that he was the owner and entitled to- the possession of about twenty acres of the land described in the petition, and that he was…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Kincaid v. McGowanCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1887
  2. Lee's Admr. v. ThompsonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1909

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. LeMoyne v. HaysCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1911
  2. Combs v. TurnerCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1922
  3. Taylor v. WilsonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1918
  4. Whitaker v. ShepherdCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1939
  5. White v. PhilpotCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1927

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