Case ID: ky_68/html/0437-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CASE 29 — PETITION EQUITY
    JUNE 26.
    Turner, &c., vs. Elb.
    APPEAL PROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT.
    1. “An act to enlarge the jurisdiction of the Louisville Chancery Court,” approved February 26, 1868 (Session, Acts, 24), is held to be constitutional.
    2. All available objections to the sale of real estate of infants, married women, &e., made under a decree of the Louisville Chancery Court, may be cured by proceedings in said court, as authorized by said act of February 26, ] 868, and titles may be perfected and silenced by confirmatory decrees, as therein prescribed.
    O. F. Stirman, For Appellants.
    Muir & Bijur, For Appellee,
    CITED—
    
      Act of February 26, 1868 (Session Acts, page 24).
   JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered the opinion op the court:

Holding a life estate in trust to her separate use, re-' mainder to others, in a small tract of land in Jefferson county, Mrs. Almira Turner and her husband, John Turner, and Henry Dent, the trustee, filed a petition in the chancery court of the city of Louisville, in April, 1867, for a sale of the land, and a more productive reinvestment to the same uses.-

All proper parties being regularly before the court, and not objecting to the decree as sought, the chancellor decreed the sale, and the appellant, Elb, confirmed as highest bidder, accepted a conveyance of the absolute title approved by the court.

Under subsequent proceedings, according to an act of February 26, 1868, for correcting irregularities, and assuring a perfect and indisputable title in such cases, the chancellor cured all alleged errors, and confirmed the sale and conveyance.

The purchaser, only desiring a title confirmed by this court, appeals, and asks our opinion.

As the said statute is one of repose, and can prejudice no one unjustly, we' can see no constitutional objection to its validity; and as, under its authority, all available objection to the sale, or to the appellants’ title, seems to have been silenced by the confirmatory decree, it is, therefore, affirmed.