Morris & Co. v. Alexander & Co.

On January 2, 1901, Alexander and others executed a deed of conveyance to certain lands therein described to the National Box Company, and the National Box Company thereafter conveyed to Morris & 'Company. The appellants occupied the lands conveyed until the first of October, 1921. On that date appellants and the National Box Company and G. L. and Lillie R. McDonald brought suit in the Greene Chancery Court, praying for the construction of the deed executed of January '2, 1901.

The appellants contended that, under a proper construction of the deed, it operated as a conveyance of the lands…