Bryant v. Meadors

Opinion op the Court .by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

The appellant, who was plaintiff below, sought by this action to enjoin appellees from trespassing and cutting trees upon about sixty-five acres of land adjoining the town of Pine Knot, now in McCreary, but formerly in Whitley county; and although she must of course recover upon the strength of her own title, and not upon any weakness of that of the defendant, since only her title *653is put in issue, strangely enough, the question involved is whether or not a survey made December 21, 1853, upon which, on December 10, 1872, a patent for 200 acres was…