Hurst v. Standard Oil Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Cammack

-Affirming.

This action was instituted originally by the appellants, W. D. Hurst and his brother, John Colson Hurst, as one in ejectment, but was later transferred by agreement of parties to equity. They set up claim to a tract of land in Bell County under the will of their grandfather, John C. Colson, Sr., through their mother, Udoxie Colson Hurst. The appellee, Standard Oil Company of Kentucky, answered and asserted ownership of a part of the land. The appeal is from a judgment denying the claim of the appellants against the Standard Oil Company.

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