Iron & Coal Co. v. Broyles

This is an action of ejectment, commenced in the Chancery Court of Campbell County. On December 30, 1873, the East Tennessee Iron & Coal Company and William Morrow, claiming to be the owners in fee of a large body of land in Campbell County, granted to Thomas B. *614Eastland, on entry No. 785 instituted a suit in the Circuit Court of that county to eject Felix Broyles from certain portions of that land. That suit remained in Court untried until February 21, 1888, when a nonsuit was taken. Thereafter, on August 30, 1888, the plaintiffs in that suit filed the bill in this case against the heirs of…