Helton v. Belcher
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 23 — Action by Judy Belcher against C. B. Helton for Trespass to Land — November 18. APPEAL FROM LESLIE CIRCUIT COURT. JUDGAIENT FOR PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT APPEALS. This was an action of trespass in nature of an ejectment and appellee must rely on her own title which must be made out by competent testimony.
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Case 23 — Action by Judy Belcher against C. B. Helton for Trespass to Land — November 18. APPEAL FROM LESLIE CIRCUIT COURT. JUDGAIENT FOR PLAINTIFF AND DEFENDANT APPEALS. This was an action of trespass in nature of an ejectment and appellee must rely on her own title which must be made out by competent testimony. The evidence of title relied on by appellee in the court below was a commissioner’s deed not supported by any judgment, and an. unproved title bond, the introduction of which were excepted to, also a patent to John Hutchens. Having shown by tbe patent, title to the land in John.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
JUDGE HOBSON
— Apfibming.
On December 5, 3871, John Hutchens obtained from the Commonwealth a patent for 300 acres oif land in Clay county, and on February 3, 1877, he sold the land by title bond to Benjamin Saylor, who assigned the bond to W. J. Taylor, and by him it was assigned to appellee, Judy Belcher. After this, St.okley Belcher, her husband, sold about fifty acres of the land to appellant, Carlo Helton, for $20, which was paid in a cow; but his wife declined to stand to the trade, and refused to make Helton a deed, and he then tendered back to Helton the amount…
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