Wood v. Harmon

Opinion op the Court by

Sims, Commissionee

Affirming.

The plaintiff below, J. L. Harmon, and John Wood, Jr., owned adjoining farms in McCreary County, which before its formation were located in Whitley County. The lands are a part of patent No. 53494 of 200 acres which Jacob E. Harmon had surveyed in 1853, and subsequently transferred the survey to John Wood, Sr., to whom the patent was issued. Wood died in May 1897, the owner of more than 600 acres of land, and in a suit in the Whitley Circuit Court to settle his estate soon after his death his lands were subdivided by commissioners appointed…