Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 1881

Green v. Keltmers

Green v. Keltmers
Court of Appeals of Kentucky · Decided March 8, 1881 · Hargis
11 Ky. Op. 98; 2 Ky. L. Rptr. 312; 1881 Ky. LEXIS 162

Green v. Keltmers

Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Judge Hargis:

The judgment is not for 2,000 acres, but is for the land in controversy included in the 2,000-acre survey. The plea of limitation was not sustained} because the appellant had no actual occupancy of the land in question by settlement thereon for seven years before the commencement of the action.

But the court erred in not adjudging to the appellant the value of his improvements. The appellee and he claimed the land under different grants, and the appellant seems to have believed, as he had the right to do, that he was the owner by reason of the patent to his remote vendor, and in this state of case he was entitled, under Gen. Stat. (1879), Ch. 80, Art. 1, § 1, to pay for his improvements. Fairbairn v. Means, 4 Met. (Ky.) 323; Proctor v. Smith, 8 Bush (ICy.) 81.

The improvements were shown to be worth $130, from which should be deducted the sum of $25 for the rent of the land, as unimproved, by the appellant, and a judgment rendered in his favor for the remainder; and until the appellee shall pay the value of the improvements as indicated, the court- will not cause possession to be delivered to him.

Wherefore the judgment is reversed and cause remanded with *99directions to enter a judgment in pursuance of the terms of this opinion.

L. Farmer, J. & J. W. Rodman, for appellant. J. M. Unthank, for appellee.

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