Spillman v. Wheeler

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

Appellants, Elmer Spillman, et al., were the owners in 1918 of the old J. W. Bell farm in Trimble county. It contained 299% acres, according to the title papers, but J. W. Bell in his lifetime sold off two tracts, leaving a boundary of approximately 149% acres, as they believed. They sold this balance to J. L. Wheeler and Edgar M. Wheeler for $17,075.00. The boundary in the deed gave the metes and bounds, concluding: “Thence to the beginning, containing 299% acres and 37 poles. But . . . from the above described tract of land there is to be…