Crider v. Kentucky-Catron Corporation

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Affirming.

The trial court, upon the petition of the appellee, quieted its title to a small tract of land claimed by the defendant, Crider, and he .has appealed. This disputed tract contains about three acres, and lies upon the line between the A. Crump and the James Ball patents. About one-fifth of it is on the Crump and four-fifths on the Ball side of the line. In 1851, one William Turner bought the Ball patent, and in 1854 the Crump patent. In 1852 Turner sold to Gr. W. Hensley the land embraced in the Ball patent, and some other land he had bought…