Case ID: ky_9/html/0029-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Judge Owsley", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BROWN, vs. STARKE.
    
      On an appeal from a decree of the Bourbon circuit court.
    
    11 Oct. 1819
    The owner of an entry, not living in the county where the land lies, must appoint an agent and notify the surveyor before January, 1796, or the land is forfeited.
   Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court.

Taylor, the owner of the entry under which the appelpellee claims, not having resided in the county of Bourbon, where the land lies, it was clearly necessary to have authorised the making his survey in 1805: that an agent resident in Bourbon county should have been appointed by him, and notice thereof given to the surveyor before the first of January, 1796, and consequently the subsequent appointment of an agent in 1797, cannot have saved his entry from forfeiture.

The decree of the court below, therefore, sustaining the appellee’s claim under an entry thus illegally surveyed, must be reversed with cost, the cause remanded, and the bill dismissed with cost. 
      
       Absent, Judge Rowan.