Case ID: ky-op_5/html/0373-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Peters :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thos. Hutchison v. Sarah Akin, Etc.
    Vendor and Purchaser — Reservation for Street — Contingency, Action to Enforce — ¡Necessary Allegations.
    Tbe appellee took tbe strip of land subject to tbe contingency, that when Ford dedicated 25 feet of land on tbe same line to a street, sbe would dedicate tbe same quantity to tbe same purpose. It is not alleged that tbe said strip bad been appropriated to tbe street or that appellant was not in tbe possession and enjoyment of tbe land at tbe time be filed bis cross-petition; to that extent, therefore, be shows no grounds for relief.
    Cemeteries — Sale of Land — Rights of Ingress and Egress — No Reservation Required.
    Tbe appellant knew tbe graveyard was on tbe land when be purchased it, and, being there, tbe law, without any reservation and inhibition in tbe deed, prohibits him from removing tbe stones that mark tbe resting places of tbe dead, buried there, or injuring and removing tbe inclosure around tbe graveyard, and compels him to permit tbe relatives of those buried there to exercise tbe right of ingress and egress.
    APPEAL FROM BOYLE CIRCUIT COURT.-
    January 31, 1871.
   Opinion by

Judge Peters :

In Ford’s deed to Graham he conveys the whole tract, and the title to the strip of land 25 feet wide, on the northern boundary passed to Graham, he bound himself, however, to dedicate that strip 25 feet wide, on condition that Ford dedicated a like quantity along said boundary for a street also. In like manner Graham in his deed to Mrs. Akin conveys said strip of land 25 feet wide to her, on the condition that she would dedicate the same to a street as provided for in Ford’s deed to him. It is therefore a mistake to say Mrs. Akin had no title to this strip of land; but she took it subject to the contingency that when Ford dedicated 25 feet of land on the same line to a street, she would dedicate the same quantity to the same purpose. And the appellant wholly failed to allege that said strip had been appropriated to the street or that he had not gotten the possession and was not in the enjoyment of said land at the time he filed his cross-petition. To that extent therefore he shows no grounds whatever for relief.

James, Harding, for appellant.

Porter, Thompson '& Daviess, for appellees. ■

As to the graveyard it is very evident that appellant knew it was on the land when he purchased, and being there the law without any reservation, and inhibition in the deed, prohibits him from removing the stones that mark the resting place of the dead buried there, or of injuring and removing the inclosure around the graveyard and compels him to permit the relatives of these buried there to exercise the right of ingress and egress to and from said graveyard on proper occasions and for proper purposes. 1 vol. R. S. pp. 412, 413. So that on neither of the grounds named has appellant any just cause of complaint. Wherefore the judgment is affirmed.