Legal Opinion

Trustees of Hawesville v. Lander

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided April 25, 1871PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Case 47 — PETITION— APPEAL PROM HANCOCK CIRCUIT COURT. CITED 6 Bush, 232, Trustees of Hawesville v. Hawes’s heirs, and cases cited.

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Case 47 — PETITION— APPEAL PROM HANCOCK CIRCUIT COURT. CITED 6 Bush, 232, Trustees of Hawesville v. Hawes’s heirs, and cases cited. CITED 3 B. Monroe, 516, L. H. & P. Turnpike Road Co. v. MeMurtry. 6 Bush, 232, Trustees of Hawesville v. Hawes’s heirs. 1 Marshall, 153, McMullen v. Brown. 1 Marshall, 406, Coleman v. Morrison. 2 Metcalfe, 482, Kelly v. Donahoe. 2 Washburn on Real Property, side-page 636. , Angelí on Highways, sections 2, 24, 142. Act to incorporate Hawesville, Session Acts, 1835-6, p. 242.

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE LINDSAY

delivered the opinion of the cohrt.

It is manifest from the proof in this case that lots Nos. 3, 8, and 60 were sold to Lander long anterior to the act of the General Assembly establishing and incorporating tbe town of Hawesville. It does not appear that these appellees, or those under whom they claim, participated in any way in procuring the passage of such act. It can not therefore so operate as to divest them of any rights acquired by their purchases of these *680lots,• neither does their acceptance of deeds from the trustees of the town estop them to assert the claim set up in…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Trustees of Hawesville v. Hawes's HeirsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1869

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis R. R. v. EsterleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1878
  2. City of Covington v. State Tax CommissionCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1929
  3. Blalock v. AtwoodCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1913
  4. Henry v. Board of TrusteesCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1925
  5. Goodloe v. City of RichmondCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1933

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