Case Name: HAY'S heirs, vs. CONNELLY'S heirs
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1718-12-01
Citations: 1 A.K. Marsh. 393
Docket Number: 
Parties: HAY’S heirs, vs. CONNELLY’S heirs.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 8
Pages: 393–394

Head Matter:
HAY’S heirs, vs. CONNELLY’S heirs.
1 Dec. 1718.
A person procuring possession of lands, under a contract of purchase, is no tenant so as to subject him to a warrant of forcible dfetamcf

Opinion:
Judge Owsley
delivered the opinion of the court.
The ancestor of the appellees having obtained the possession of the land in contest, under a contract with the ancestor of the appellants for a conveyance, we are of, opinion, that in the sense intended by the act regulating proceedings for forcible detainers, he cannot be said to have obtained the possession as tenant, so as to have either autho-rised the ancestor of the appellants in his life time, or his heirs since, in a proceeding under the act, to have obtain^ restitution on account of the failure of either of the appel* lees, or their ancestor, to surrender the possession.
The judgment must be affirmed with cost.
Absent, judge Logas.