McQueen v. Ahbe

Hatcher, Judge:

This is am action in ejectment brought here on error from a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, rendered by the Circuit Court of Nicholas County.

A tract of 378 acres owned by Levi J. Hooker was sold by the sheriff of .Nicholas County in 1875 for delinquent taxes, and purchased by J. M. Hutchinson. Hutchinson assigned the benefit of his purchase to Henry McQueen, to whom a deed was made in 1878, by the clerk of the County Court of said county. The deed describes this tract as situate on Brushy Fork and Powell’s Mountain and bounded as follows:

“Beginning at a red oak on the top…