Garrett v. Musgrave

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

The appeal results from a disagreement between adjoining landowners regarding the use of a well, but in determining relative rights the Chancellor established a true line. Effect was to quiet title in appellees to a strip thirteen feet wide on the west side of Lot 10, and to create in the disputants a common tenancy in respect of the well as such.

Prior to 1944 J. P. and Hazel Turner owned Lot 10. By deed of August 28th of that year they conveyed to Harold Sandlin the west thirteen feet. A description note of explanation was: “This thirteen-ft. [strip] is supposed…