Case Name: John Mardis v. E. B. Reeder and Klette
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1869-11-20
Citations: 3 Ky. Op. 605
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Mardis v. E. B. Reeder and Klette.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Opinions, containing the unreported opinions of the Court of Appeals
Volume: 3
Pages: 605–606

Head Matter:
John Mardis v. E. B. Reeder and Klette.
Ejectment — Claim by Long Occupancy — Muniments of Title not Considered.
Where land is claimed by long occupancy, and the verdict of the jury is founded on that ground alone, the question of documentary evidence of title need not be considered.
APPEAL FROM KENTON CIRCUIT COURT.
November 20, 1869.

Opinion:
Opinion of the Court by
Judge Robertson:
After the áppellees and those under whom they claim had enjoyed, for about thirty .years, the continuous possession of a large tract of land in Kenton county granted in 1786, by Virginia to Henry Field, the appellant, without proof, of possessory or documentary title, took and still-forcibly holds a portion of it for the restitution of which the appellees obtained a verdict and judgment in this action of ejectment.
Carlisle & O'Hara, for appellant.
Stevenson & Myers, for appellees.
The appellees claim by derivative conveyances from persons claiming to have been the devisees of the patentee, and also by long occupancy; and the verdict was demonstrably founded on the latter ground alone and authorized by the evidence.
It is useless, therefore, to consider the questions discussed concerning the will and the conveyances introduced on the trial and extensively argued in this court; for however we might dispose of any of those questions, the verdict is right and could not have been superinduced by any error in the rulings of the circuit court respecting documents, and there is no plausible pretense of error in its decisions respecting the question of possession.
Wherefore, without unneeesary elaboration, this court affirms the judgment of the circuit court.