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An Act for the benefit of the heirs of Stephen Ashby, junr. deceased. 1831 120 (1831)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0211 and id is 1 raw text is: 120 KENTUCKY. 1831. procegs; and any defendant, or defendants, claiming a lien, may proceed to the proof of their respective claims, immediately on filing their rcspective answers, asserting and specif)ing their claims. It shall not be necessary for a defendant, or defendants, claiming a lien or relief against any complainant, or co-defendant, to make their answer, or answers, a cross bill against the complainant, or any of the co-defendants; but the assertion of their respective claims and liens, in their answers, with a prayer for the appropriate or general relief, shall be sufficient to authorize the court to enter the proper decree for relief, against any of the com- plainants or defendants. Src. 6. Be itfurther enacted, That immediately on Answers to be the service of the process, in any suit instituted un- filed, and cause der the provisions of this act, any defendant, or defen- to stand for tri- dants, shall have the right to file with t'he clerk of the al at the first Jefferson circuit court, his or their answer, under oath; and the clerk shall endorse thereon, the true time of filing the same; and twenty days shall be allowed to a defendant, or defendants, to file their answers, after the service of process. The cause shall stand for trial at the first term after the service of process, if the same shall have been served twenty days before the com- mencement of the court; and either at a common law or chancery term; and may be taken up for trial, on ten days' notice, in writing, on any day of any such term. The court, for good cause, may continue the cause, and may permit a defendant, or defendants, to file his or their answers, at any time before the trial of the cause, on such terms as the court may deem equi. table. CHAP. DCLXXXVII. .INM A CT for the benefit of the heirs of Stephen Ashby, junr. deceased. Approved, December 22, 1831. WHEREAS, it is represented to the General As- P'reamble. sembly, that Stephen Ashby jr. of Hopkins county, died in May eighteen hundred twenty-nine, intestate, leaving a widow and four children, who are infants; that he was possessed of three hundred and eleven acres of land, upon which he lived, some slaves, and a smallpersonal property: that Nathaniel Ashby. and

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