Red Bird Oil Company v. Susnick

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Reversing.

Fifty or sixty years ago Pallas Bowling and Jesse Gay lived on adjoining farms on Bullskin creek in Clay county. Appellant claims under Pallas Bowling. Appellee Susnick married a granddaughter of Jesse Gay and bought out the other heirs, claiming under Jesse Gay. The land in controversy is a strip approximately 300-yards wide and 900 yards long. Pallas Bowling had lived on his land many years before Gay bought from Bill Britton, who had bought from Perry Davidson. The appellant, who brought the suit, proved by two sons of Pallas' Bowling,…