Legal Opinion

Chiles v. Conley's Heirs

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided April 9, 1834PublishedCited by 8 opinions

From the Circuit Court for Montgomery County.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Robertson

On a joint and several demise in the name of Arthur Conley’s heirs, two of the lessors (now appellees) ohtained a verdict and judgment, in ejectment, against *22William Chiles and others claiming under him, for two undivided seventh parts of a tract of land.

Title of the defendantg. Title of the plaintiffs. A record offered entire as evi denee, when some portions of it only are relevant, must be rejected.

Chiles claimed the land in virtue of a conveyance to him, in 1816, by the heirs of William Hays* who was a patentee, and he also held a deed from some of the lessors, but not from either of those…

2Cited by8 opinions

  1. Prewitt v. WilbornCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1919
  2. City of Hazard v. EversoleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1931
  3. Johnson v. McClungWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1885
  4. Simms v. HerveySupreme Court of Iowa · 1865
  5. Snyder v. SnyderIndiana Supreme Court · 1865

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