Handy v. Standard Oil Co.

CLAY, Commissioner.

This action was brought by appellee to quiet title to a strip of land bordering on Kentucky Highway 80 near London, Kentucky. Both appellants and appellee claim title through a common grantor. The Chancellor found that it was the intention of the grantor to convey the disputed property to appellee’s predecessor in title.

The common grantor was Maggie Wyatt. In 1939 she acquired what is known as the “Gregory Tract”, containing something over 50 acres, which lay south of Highway 80. In January 1940 she acquired from one Broughton another tract lying south of Highway 80. This…