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3 Ky. Op. 276

Morehead v. McLean

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided April 16, 1869

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1869-04-16

<p>Vendor and Purchaser — Visible Change of Possession of Property.</p> <p>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.</p>

Decided 1869-04-16

¶1Opinion of the Court by

Judge Robertson:

¶2There 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.

¶3All the instructions asked by the appellant were given and were as full and as favorable to him as he could expect.

¶4The evidence, altogether properly considered, authorized the verdict for $100.

¶5Wherefore, the judgment is affirmed.

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