Legal Opinion

Stearns Coal & Lumber Co. v. Patton

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1915PublishedCited by 7 opinions

FROM FENTRESS. _ Appeal from the Chancery Court of Fentress County to the Court of Civil Appeals, and by certior’ari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court. —A. H. Roberts, Chancellor.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice FIahcher

A decree in a former case at Jamestown is sought to be set aside as a cloud on complainant’s title to real estate. The former case was Malissa Williams et al. v. S. H. Pile, Tillman Crabtree, et al., and it is alleged to have been a suit to remove cloud on title and to sell for partition a tract of 123-,889 acres of land covered by a grant issued by the State of Kentucky to F. P. Stone et al. on the 6th day of October, 1848. Thé bill was against very many defendants.

Defendant, Patton, in the present case, claims under a conveyance from Tillman Crabtree, dated the 17th of August, 18-85, and…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Miner v. . BeekmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
  2. Central Trust Co. v. Grant Locomotive WorksSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  3. Cooper v. RheaSupreme Court of Kansas · 1910
  4. Schoener v. . LissauerNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
  5. Katz v. ObenchainOregon Supreme Court · 1906

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Bouldin v. TaylorTennessee Supreme Court · 1924
  2. College Coal Mining Co. v. SmithTennessee Supreme Court · 1929
  3. Coleman v. Wells Fargo Banks, N.A.District Court, M.D. Tennessee · 2016
  4. McClure v. CouchTennessee Supreme Court · 1945
  5. Patterson v. T. J. Moss Tie Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1959

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