Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 1785-1951 Volume 7; V. 70 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...that business; that decedent represented his land as superior farming land, and invited him to go with him to examine it, which he did; that decedent showed him land south of his tract, which was rich ridge land, above overflow, and which he represented as being within his boundary; that he did not own nor propose to sell him in the tract more than thirty or forty acres subject to overflow, and that the balance of his tract was dry upland, well adapted to farming purposes, and assured him that the rich ridge land south of his true boundary was his, and relying on these statements of decedent he made the purchase; that said upland on the south of said boundary did not then and never did belong to said decedent, but belonged to the heirs of Merriwether, and to consummate his fraudulent purpose he caused McMurry, the surveyor of Fulton County, to make an incorrect survey by showing false corners, and had the lines so run as to include the ridge south of his true line, Upshaw, &c. v. Debow. when he knew the same 'did not belong to him, and was not embraced in his deed, so as to induce appellee to make said contract, and that he could not effect a sale to him unless that land was included; that upon a correct survey of the quarter sections and fractional quarter to which appellant's intestate had title, and which he fraudulently conveyed to him, do not include said ridge; that there are one hundred and eighty-two acres of land between the true southern boundary of the land owned by said decedent and the southern line as run by McMurry, and which he represented as his true southern line, and that the land north of the actual line is subject to overflow, swampy, and very inferior to that which he represented to appellee he was selling him, and not worth half a...