Case ID: ky-op_5/html/0319-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Peters:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Robinson Stewart v. Alvin Stewart.
    Vendor and Purchaser — Title Bond by One Since Deceased — Proof of Signature.
    The holder of a title bond for land, executed by a person who has since died, must produce satisfactory evidence of the signature of the deceased before he can recover against the heirs.
    APPEAL FROM LAWRENCE CIRCUIT COURT.
    May 5, 1871.
   •Opinion by

Judge Peters:

It was important that appellant should have proved by the subscribing witnesses if there were any, that Ralph Stewart executed the bond under which he asserts claim. Without some evidence of the execution of the bond, or of the signature of Ralph Stewart to the writing, appellant cannot successfully assert claim to the land against the heirs. The paper presented to Brown when the answer was drawn purported to be a bond for a title for the land, but Brown does not prove that the signature to it was Ralph Stewart’s, nor that he ever heard him acknowledge it nor that he knew the signature to it to be R. Stewart’s. We are not therefore prepared to say that the evidence was sufficient to establish the execution, and. existence of the asserted bond.

Brown & Dawson, for appellants.

L. T. Moore, for appellee.

Wherefore the judgment is affirmed.