I'm still working!!! Another new book just "came off the presses". This book is Volume 1 of a series entitled the Reports of the Kentucky Courts of Appeals. With the assistance of Barren County Circuit Court Judge Phil Patton, I have gained access to these old books which are extremely interesting. If a case came before the Circuit Court and the defendant disagreed with the decision of the court, he could send an appeal to the Kentucky Court of Appeals who heard his case, read the testimony, checked precedence in other cases and made a decision as to whether the verdict at the County level was correct or not. Many of the old books are not available locally, but the ones included in Volume 1 are as follows: Spring Term 1813, Fall term 1814, Spring & Fall 1839, Spring & Fall 1840, Spring & Fall 1841, Spring & Fall 1842, Spring & Fall 1843, Spring 1844, Fall 1847, Spring & Fall 1848, Spring & Winter 1849, Spring & Winter 1850, Summer & Winter 1852 and Summer and Winter 1853. Counties included are Adair (5 cases), Allen (1 case), Barren,(9 cases) Cumberland (4 cases), Edmonson (4 cases), Green (13 cases), Hardin (13 cases), Hart (6 cases), Logan (6 cases), Monroe (2 cases) and Warren (11 cases). A sampling of the cases include dower assignment, tippling houses, slave sales & emancipation, debts, estate settlements, forcible entry, fraud in sales, ejectment, intent to kill, failure to follow wishes of a will, trespass, failure to have license for breeding mules, debts, stolen hogs, wife's dower, fraud, etc. There a couple of extremely interesting cases - a family of slaves who had been freed and had to go back into slavery and a very senior citizen who married a very young lady - and then everything fell apart! I've abstracted some of the cases, some are full copy. Again, as always, if you'd like to see a copy of the table of contents and the index, drop me a line privately and I'll forward it to you as a word document. Those I don't see tonight, I'll send after church and before the Super Bowl! Sandi SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html