Case ID: ky-op_11/html/0268-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Lewis:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Irvine Whittaker et al. v. Green B. Millien.
    [Kentucky Law Reporter, Vol. 3-320.]
    Purchase-Price for Sale of Real Estate.
    A purchaser of real estate is not required to accept any but a good title, and before judgment can be taken against him for the purchase-price such a title must be tendered to him; and where the title offered is such that a nonresident owner is given five years in which to vacate such a conveyance, it is not such as would require him to accept it.
    APPEAL FROM MADISON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
    October 15, 1881.
   Opinion by

Judge Lewis:

In this case the appellants, though put upon the proof of title, did not show either a legal or equitable title in themselves. They allege their ancestor many years ago purchased the land from one Silas Barnes, who gave him a title bond, but do not exhibit nor prove the bond ever existed.

Barnes is a nonresident of the state, and even if he had been constructively summoned in the manner required by the Civil Code, he would have one year after the actual service of a certified copy of the judgment upon him and five years without such service to appear and have the action retried.

Appellee is not required to accept any but a good title to the land before judgment against him for the purchase-price, and as the court had no authority, as the case stood, to direct a conveyance by commissioner, which might not be hereafter can-celled by Barnes, and he did not appear in person to make the conveyance, appellants were not entitled to judgment for any more than it was rendered for.

C. F. & A. R. Btirnam, for appellants.

T. J. Scott, for appellee.

Wherefore the judgment is affirmed.