Swift Coal & Timber Co. v. Sturgill

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

Tbe only question in this case' is the proper location on tbe ground of a patent for 12,000 acres of land issued in 1846 to Isom Stamper. Tbe effort therefore is to relocate tbe described boundary as did tbe surveyor in making tbe survey upon which tbe patent issued. Tbe land is thus described in tbe patent:

“Beginning on three chesnuts and chestnut oak near tbe bead of Pigeon fork, thence running tbe dividing ridge between Turkey creek and tbe Line fork to tbe Defeated branch, thence tbe dividing ridge between tbe Defeated branch and Turkey creek,…