Liberty Coal & Coke Co. v. Lewis

ANDREW M. J. COCHRAN, District Judge.

This suit is before me on final hearing and for judgment. It involves a controversy as to the title to a parcel of land estimated to contain 600 acres on the waters of Stinking creek in Knox county in this district. I will first state the defendants’ claim thereto. They claim it under a patent from the commonwealth of Kentucky to John Hunter, issued October 28, 1797, on a survey made March 15, 1797,, for 5,619 acres. The claim is that the 600 acres in controversy is part of this larger boundary of 5,619 acres and covered by that patent, and that defendants…