Jarrell v. Jarrell

JOHNSON, PRESIDENT:

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Boone county. In 1869, on March 6, Madison Jarrell conveyed to John Jarrell a tract of land “lying and being in Boone county * * on Big Coal river below the Marsh Fork thereof containing 100 acres more or less, bounded as, follows, to-wit:” (here follow the metes and bounds — and then follows): “ that is to say the said John Jarrell to have the upper part of said survey down the river to the lower end of Madison Jarrell’s plantation; thence a straight line across the bottom and river to a large chestnut and sugar tree…