Jarvis v. Johnson

DAYTON, District Judge.

Plaintiff claims, through successive conveyances, lot 56 of land patented to Claiborne in 1797. The contesting defendants claim, by successive conveyances, a 470-acre tract patented to Levi and Wm. Johnson on July 1, 1850. These lands overlap to the extent that defendant Plarris claims 64.35 acres and defendant Johnson 126.45 acres as covered by their junior patent, included and embraced in plaintiff’s lot 56, older patent. When sawmill contractors went, under plaintiff, upon the disputed land to cut the timber, defendant Johnson caused the arrest of four of the men…