Case ID: ky_8/html/0253-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Owsley", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HICKERSON GRUBBS, vs. GEO. PICKETT.
    
      On an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Warren.
    
    13 June, 1818.
    The correspondence of lines and corners found on the ground, wit a those called for in the patent, may be proved by ..others than the surveyor and chain men, without accounting' for their absence
    When a. landlord defends and pleads for hi9 tenant, the habere facies rigió fully issues? vs the tenant in pos-
    
      Hardin for appellant.
   Judge Owsley

ddelivered the opinion of the court.

The court below properly permitted the appellee, who was plaintiff in that court, without accounting for the absence of the surveyor and those who were present when the original survey was made, to prove by other witnesses, a correspondence between the comer trees and marked lines, called for in his patent, and those found upon the land in contest; and they moreover correctly refused to discharge the order awarding the habere facias possessionem, on the ground (urged by the appellant) of no judgment being taken against the tenants ip possession; those tenants having taken possession under the appellant, and for whom the appellant was permitted to defend, bv pleading the general issue.

The judgment must be affirmed with cost.