Court Opinion

ID: 7153861
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:04:28.626751+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:11.690841
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Judge Peters:
Appellees filed their petition in the Bullitt County Court against appellants, for partition of a tract of some 100 acres of land on Long Lick Creek ip said county. They allege that appellants are in possession of the whole tract, and that they are entitled to one-third of it.
Appellants filed an answer, in which they admit they have possession of the land, claim it as their own, assert they had had the *561peaceable adverse possession for more than fifteen years before ap-pellees brought suit, and controvert their right to any part of the same.

A. H. Field, for appellants.

Meyler, for appellees.

The case, after the answer was filed, was transferred to the Bul-litt Circuit Court, where on final hearing judgment was rendered in favor of appellees for one-third of the land, and partition ordered, and from that judgment this appeal is prosecuted.
Appellees claim the land by purchase at a sale of it as a part of the real estate of C. R. Samuels, deceased, made by virtue of a judgment of the Bullitt Circuit Court in the case of Wesley Phelps, curator of R. F. Samuels, deceased, v. C. R. Samuels et al., and that they derived title through C. D. Shean. But they wholly failed to show that Shean had any title to< the land whatever.
When appellants, by their answer, controverted appellees’ title, and the case was removed to the Bullitt Circuit Court, it assumed the character of, and was, in fact, an action for the recovery of real estate; and in order to entitle them to recover, it was incumbent for them to manifest a title in themselves superior to that of appellees, and that they failed to do so.
Wherefore the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded with directions to dismiss the petition.