Melton v. Pace

This bill was filed to enjoin the defendants from cutting and removing timber from a tract of land of which complainant claimed to *485be the owner as a purchaser at a sale made under a decree of the Chancery Court of Morgan Oonnty. The defendants resist, and, on the contrary, insist that complainant has no interest in this land. In order to understand the character of this claim, as well as the point on which we dispose of it, it is necessary briefly to give the transmutation of the title to the property in question since 1885, as well as the nature of certain litigation which antedates the…