Hardin County Chancery Court Case
Circa. 1859 *
John H. Geoghegan's Estate VS Larkin Sandridge
Testimony before arbitrator
Martin M. Bush being first sworn, stated he is a farmer and surveyed the
Geoghegan farm and laid off the cultivated land in lots No.’s 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7
as shown in platt dated Apr 1855 and makes said platt a part of this
disposition, and that at the time Mr. Sandridge took possession of said
farm,
the fencing as far as I could see in passing along the road was in good
condition; and the public road passed along & through the cleared land
near one
mile. He states he again surveyed the improved land on said farm in the
fall
1857, and at that time the fences was in bad condition and thrown about,
as I
supposed by the railroad hands where they had passed through. He stated
his
knowledge of the farm when Sandridge went on it and when he left it, would
not
enable him to form any estimate of what it would cost to put the farm in
good
condition.
Question by defendant:
He stated that when Mr. Sandridge went on the farm or took possession of
the
same, that the yard fencing was in bad condition, but afterward there was
a new
plank fence with cedar posts put up around the yard lacking some five or six
panels. He stated that in Apr 1855 when he made the first survey that the
fencing adjoining John B. Wathen was not good, but sufficient to protect a
crop
where stock was not breech. He stated that Mr. Sandridge repaired the
fencing
along the road in front of the house to the bridge and how far back
towards town
did not now recollect, and also around the stable lot, and that it was a
very
good fence where he repaired it. He stated that a freshet washed away the
fencing along the road from the old orchard to the bridge, and the meadow
fence
from the bridge along the creek to a bluff near the lower end of the
meadow, and
also washed off the fencing along the creek above the bridge and across
fence,
but how much of it cannot say, and also across fence across the meadow in
lot
No. 5. He also stated that the ( ? ) 22 poles in lot No. 5 when surveyed
by me
was not in a condition to mow, having briars and sycamore sprouts growing
through it, and was worth $1. per acre for pasture.
Oct 21, 1858, M. M. Bush
C. Kurtz being sworn stated that during the time Larkin Sandridge lived on
the
Geoghegan farm he cultivated a lot of ground on the opposite side of the
road
from the chestnut trees, about four acres one year in corn, and also one
year in
wheat and in the year 1857, Mr. Sandridge cultivated a lot adjoining the
barn in
corn & potatoes and that said lot contains about seven acres.
April 22, 1859, C. Kurtz
The foregoing is all the testimony introduced before me by the plaintiff
April 30, 1859, George S. Miles, Arbitrator
Witness claimed
George W. Smith
Robert Hagan
Sam Pendleton
Martin M. Bush
Conrod Kurtz
* Hardin County Chancery Court 1859 as copied from original documents in the
possession of Kentucky State Archives
© Copyright 1986, 1997, 1998 "The Geoghegan Family History" by Steve
Geoghegan
