Walton v. Knight

MilleR, Judge:

The parties plaintiff and defendants own contiguous tracts of land in Greenbrier county, each consisting of about 400 *224acres, parts of an original survey of 800 acres, both traversed by Spring Creek; the plaintiff’s land being- the part lying back of that owned by the defendants, whose land lies between that of the plaintiff and the county road. The land owned by the defendants passed from William Hanna, the original patentee of the 800 acres, to Albert Hanna, who in December, 1849, conveyed the same to Andrew McCoy, who in October, 1855, conveyed it to Andrew Knight, the father…