Everidge v. Martin

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hurt

Reversing.

On the 27th day of March, 1858, a patent was granted to Silas Callahan for one hundred acres of land, described as being situated on the Wolf Pen Branch of Carr’s Pork, in what was then Letcher County, Kentucky. On October 29th, 1860, a patent was granted to the same Silas Callahan for one hundred acres of land, upon a survey made on the 4th day of October, 1858, and described as being in the county of Letcher, on top of the mountain, and head of the left hand fork of Trace Pork, etc. The lands embraced by these two patents adjoined, and a large part…