Stephens v. Justice

Opinion op the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

Thomas Stephens sued James Justice to recover of him two small strips of land. He was unsuccessful and he has appealed.

Stephens had two sons-in-law, Joshua Damron and James Justice. In 1888 he conveyed to Damron a portion of his land by a very imperfect and unsatisfactory description. The next t6 the last line in that description is thus described:

“Thence up the hill in a northern course with the old road to Stephens’ and Brown’s line to a black oak with the top broken out.”

In 1913, he conveyed some of his land to Justice by a description…