Creech v. Miniard

PALMORE, Judge.

Appellants brought this action to quiet their title to part of a 100-acre tract surveyed in 1844 and patented to William Turner in 1845, and to enjoin appellees from cutting and removing timber from it. Ap-pellees denied appellants’ title and asserted ownership in themselves, including title by adverse possession. The chancellor adjudged that appellees own the land through a “conditional line” agreement made in 1883 by their predecessor, David Turner, and appellants’ predecessor, Eli Huff, and by adverse possession as well.

Appellants proved record title by mesne conveyances…