Curtis v. Peebles

Appellees were the owners of a tract of land situated in Sussex county, containing 407 acres. On April 8, 1929, appellees, after reserving and excepting twenty acres of timber land from the 407-acre tract, conveyed to appellants, A. T. and C. E. Curtis, partners, trading as A. T. Curtis and Son, all the pine and poplar trees growing on 387 acres of land, the boundaries of which were fully set forth in the deed of conveyance. Some time after the date of the conveyance and after appellants had cut the timber, they claimed that the reserved tract, instead of containing twenty acres, contained…