422.270 Action to supply lost record.
When any written instrument, authorized by law to be recorded, has been so recorded,
and the book containing it has been lost, destroyed, mutilated or defaced, and there is not
in existence a copy of such writing known to the person claiming under it, such person
may institute a suit in equity, in the county where such instrument was recorded, against
the grantors or obligors in the writing, or his heirs or personal representatives, setting
forth the fact of the existence of such writing, and the destruction of the record. Upon
hearing, the court may render judgment that the defendants make and execute another
writing in lieu of the original, of the same tenor and effect. Upon the failure of the
defendants to execute a new writing within a reasonable time, the court shall cause the
same to be executed by a commissioner, which shall vest in plaintiff all the rights vested
in him by the original writing. If the recorded instrument be a conveyance for land, the
plaintiff may make defendants any or all who have had title to the land for fifteen (15)
years preceding the institution of the suit. No judgment for costs shall be rendered against
the defendants unless they make defense and fail therein, except that, if they fail to
convey or execute a new writing when adjudged to do so by the court, they shall, if
adults, pay the cost of making the writing by a commissioner.
Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky.
Stat. sec. 4000.
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