Case Name: Wm. Orear v. Chris. Singleton
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1801-08-12
Citations: 1 Sneed 65
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wm. Orear v. Chris. Singleton.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 65–65

Head Matter:
AUGUST 12, 1801.
Wm. Orear v. Chris. Singleton.
Upon a writ of error to reverse a decree of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Madison county.
An award that one of the parties shall pay a sum of money and relinquish three-fourths of a tract of land to the other, hut which does not fix the time from which the money is to hear interest, nor the form in which' the land is to he laid off, is void for uncertainty.

Opinion:
The time from which interest is to be calculated on the £91 7 6 given by the award — also the part of the tract of 200 acres which is to be relinquished, and the form in which the 3-4 thereof is to be laid off, are not expressed in the award; and the decree of the court thereon being equally exceptionable, must, therefore, be reversed. Therefore, it is considered by the court, that the decree aforesaid be reversed and set aside; that the cause be remanded to the court from whence it came that the court may decree thereon as if the award had never been made, and that the plaintiff recover of the defendant his costs in this behalf expended, which is ordered to be certified to the said court.