State v. Mounts

Hatcher, Judge:

This is a proceeding by a school commissioner.

Moses Mounts died in 19'04 owning a tract of 225 acres in Logan county. His heirs instituted a partiton suit, in which this tract was partitioned in 1905. One of the exterior boundaries of the tract was the Trace Fork of Island Creek. The portion bordering on- the stream was divided into seven lots, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9. (See copy of partition map.) This litigation grows out of the fact that the courses and the distances in the descriptions of the lots do not coincide with the meanders of the creek, and do not extend…