Case ID: ky-op_3/html/0506-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Robertson:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Leo Thompson et al v. Waller Bartley’s Heirs.
    Judicial Sales — Descriptions of Land Sold — Purchaser Must have Good Title.
    The commissioner’s report of sale fails to describe the land sold so that same can be identified with legal certainty and the purchaser, therefore, being unable to get a good title was not compelled to pay the purchase money.
    APPEAL FROM DAVIESS CIRCUIT COURT.
    October 12, 1869.
    
      Ray, for appellants.
    
   Opinion of the Court by

Judge Robertson:

The judgment in this case must be reversed for two reasons.

1. The heirs being infants, service on them was necessary before their real estate could be legally sold.

2. The petition does not sufficiently identify the reality sought to be subjected. Though it refers to various documents of title it states that indefinite portions had been sold; and moreover none of those documents include or discribe the houses and lots sold by the commissioner’s report, in any way, discribe those houses and lots so that they can be identified with legal certainty, or conveyances made assuring valid title. The appellants therefore being unable to get a good title ought not to be compelled to' pay the purchase money.

Wherefore the judgment is reversed and the case remanded for proper proceedings according to this opinion.