Emerson v. Stratton

This record shows that in April, 1887, J. E. Johnson and wife sold and conveyed to E. A. Stratton 83.50 acres of land, more or less, in Wise county, at $2 per acre. It further appears that, in the same month and year, E. M. Eulton, as commissioner of the Circuit Court of Wise county, conveyed to E. A. Stratton, at the request of Mrs. Johnson, the grantor in the deed first mentioned, two tracts of land in the same county, containing 1,064.50 acres, which she had purchased for $599.65 under a decree of the court in a chancery suit then pending. This conveyance described the land conveyed as…