Woodruff v. Roysden

Wilkes, J.-

This is an action of ejectment to recover 1,000 acres of land in Scott and Fentress counties. There are two bills consolidated and heard together in the Court below, and the controversy as it comes to this Court only involves 1,000 acres, or so much of a 5,000-acre tract as is embraced in two deeds from Gyrene O arson and wife, one to Chandler and Smith, of date November 6, 1882, and the other to John Carson, dated December 27, 1881. These deeds purport to convey an undivided interest of two-thirds to Chandler and Smith and one-third to John Carson. The complainants deraign their…