Tennis Coal Co. v. Hensley

Opinion op the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing.

This suit involves the title to fifty acres of land in Leslie county for which a patent was issued to John Sheppard in the year 1861, both parties tracing their title to this source.

It appears that on the 28th day of November, 1903, one Phillip Josepli sold and by deed of general warranty conveyed to the Tennis Coal Company a tract of 705 acres of land. This land had theretofore been in several different parcels contiguous one to the other, one of which was the land in question. All were then carefully surveyed and outside lines marked and…