Cumberland Coal Co. v. Croley

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

Tbe title to two small, but evidently valuable, tracts of land? in Knox county is involved in this record of 1256 pages, and the vital issue is about the proper location of the beginning corner and the first two calls in the deed dated September 13, 1871, from Tarlton Lunsford to Richard Ricketts, which are described as follows:

“Beginning on a chestnut oak standing on a cliff; thence with said Lunsford’s outside line to two chestnuts; thence with same to a large poplar.”

Appellees contend that a marked chestnut oak snag on a high cliff near the top…