Case ID: ky_8/html/0059-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Owsley", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WILLIAM STEWART, vs. BURWELL JACKSON.
    
      On an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of IVar-ren.
    
    20 Oct. 1817.
    
    
      t „ _ . A petti in eject, whose Piit£Ilt “ not old "when he brings his yearsadverse possession,— tiiepli*» right mencingwitii his patent.
    
      Pope for appellant, Bibb for appellee.
   Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case turns upon the propriety of the decision of the court below in refusing to award the appellant a new trial in an action of ejectment brought by him in that court against the appellee,

The appellee relied upon an adverse possession for twenty years; but as the appellant’s right of entry is shewn to have accrued within twenty years, according to the case of Chiles against Calk, (4th Bibb, 544,) the court improperly held his action to be barred such a

The judgment must, therefore, be reversed with cost, the cause remanded, and a new trial had, not inconsistent with this opinion.