Case Name: C. L. Morehead v. George R. McLean
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1869-04-16
Citations: 3 Ky. Op. 276
Docket Number: 
Parties: C. L. Morehead v. George R. McLean.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Opinions, containing the unreported opinions of the Court of Appeals
Volume: 3
Pages: 276–276

Head Matter:
C. L. Morehead v. George R. McLean.
Vendor and Purchaser — Visible Change of Possession of Property.
A sale of personal property, though the vendor and vendee lived together, where accompanied by a visible change of jjossession, and actual use by the vendee in his individual capacity will be upheld.
APPEAL FROM MUHLENBURG CIRCUIT COURT.
April 16, 1869.
James, for appellant.
Dawson, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion of the Court by
Judge Robertson:
There is no sufficient ground for imputing actual fraud in the sale of the machine; nor do the facts require the deduction of constructive fraud. The possession accompanied the sale; and, through, as vendor and vendee lived together, the ostensible possession may not have been certainly changed, yet the notoriety of the sale and of the use of the machine by the vendee as his own exclusive property were, in principle and policy, equivalent to a visible change of the possession from the date of the sale to the levy of the execution on the machine as the property of the vendor, and the jury had a right so to decide.
All the instructions asked by the appellant were given and were as full and as favorable to him as he could expect.
The evidence, altogether properly considered, authorized the verdict for $100.
Wherefore, the judgment is affirmed.