Brier Hill Collieries v. Gernt

This was an action of ejectment brought in the chancery court of Fentress county - to recover a tract of land known in the record as the “Chism tract,” lying in an interlap of grant No. 6418 with grant No. 6199. Both parties claim title from a common source, A. L. Crawford. He acquired a deed for a boundary of land lying within grant No. 6199', including the in-terlap just mentioned, from one R. H. Chism, on the 6th of October, 1882, and a deed for grant No. 6418 from one W. S. Snyder and others, on the 22d of December, 1883. On the 21st of August,' 1885', A. L. Crawford conveyed to his son…