CARPENTER v. EVANS


363 S.W.2d 108 (1962)

Rector CARPENTER, Appellant, v. Elbert EVANS et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

December 14, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cleon K. Calvert, Pineville, Carlos B. Pope, J. B. Campbell, Barbourville, for appellant.

Lester L. Parrott, Pineville, Francis M. Burke, F. Dale Burke, Pikeville, for appellees.


STEWART, Chief Justice.

This litigation concerns the ownership of three grants of land made by the Commonwealth to Aaron Edwards, late of Knox County. The action was filed by some of his heirs at law as a class action for themselves and for the benefit of all other heirs of the decedent, his progeny being too numerous to ascertain (about 140) and too scattered to be brought into court as parties.

On December 31, 1957, the Knox Circuit Court (Ray C. Lewis,...

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