United Fuel Gas Co. v. Townsend

HATCHER, PRESIDENT:

Prior to 1897 H. R. Carper had acquired several contiguous tracts of land in Roane County. The most westerly of these tracts was one of 99% acres. Its description is as follows: * * * "commencing, at a cucumber on the North side of Little Left Hand on the line of G. W. Pettit N 6 E 32 poles to a poplar, and walnut thence S 84 E 22 poles to a walnut thence N 26 E 110 poles to a white oak & Hickory, thence down the hill with the line of A. Gallatine, crossing the branch to a sugar, thence a south W a/nd P. M. McCan’s line to a Plickory near the top of the ridge on G. W.…