Turner v. Bowens

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

This controversy is about the ownership of a small tract of land claimed by the Nieces, who were vendors of Turner, the appellant, on the one side, and Bowens, the appellee, on the other.

In 1867 there was conveyed to Bowens a tract of land in Letcher county “beginning at the mouth of a small *756drain, a short distance below the lower end of the Owing Colly field; thence running up the Camp Branch to the upper end of the Ewings field”; and thence with different general courses to the beginning, containing 200 acres more or less. In 1895 there was…