Case ID: ky-op_10/html/0787-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Hines", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joel C. McGuire v. James M. McGuire.
    [Abstract Kentucky Law Reporter, Vol. 1 — 328.]
    Partition of Land by Contract.
    When it is agreed by two parties that land is to be divided between them, in the absence of proof to the contrary, the conclusion must be that it was the intention to divide the land into two equal parts.
    APPEAL PROM CARTER CIRCUIT COURT.
    
      J. R. Bott, E. B. Wilhoit, for appellant.
    
    
      R. D. Davis, for appellee.
    
    October 22, 1880.
   Opinion by

Judge Hines

The evidence in this case appears to us sufficient’to warrant the judgment of the court. The statement by appellant himself is that it was agreed that the land was to be divided between appellee and himself, and, in the absence of proof to the contrary, the conclusion would be that it was the intention and agreement of the parties to divide the land into two equal parts. This strengthens the evidence in support of the claim of appellee that there was a mistake in drawing the bond, and upon this point the preponderance, if not the decided weight of the evidence, is to the effect that there was a mistake.

Judgment affirmed.