Yates v. Chandler

Complainant Yates filed this bill to restrain the cutting of certain timber on an adjoining tract of Duck River bottom land, owned by defendant Chandler. The Chancellor sustained a demurrer and complainant appeals.

The lands owned by the parties were formerly parts of a single tract lying on the east bank of the Duck River. In a division into four tracts made by inter, or cross, deeds executed in 1894, the land now owned by Chandler was conveyed to W. P.. Griner, and has passed through different subsequent owners tó Chandler. Yates acquired his title through another of the original partition…