Bloomstein v. Clees Bros.

The Chancellor :

The demurrer to the bill is intended to raise the question whether the right of way claimed by the complainants over the land of the defendants can be maintained, if the agreement under which it is claimed was in parol.

The bill was filed on August 27,1877, by Bloomstein and the administrator and heirs of M. Anderson, deceased, against six brothers of the name of Clees. Bloomstein, Anderson, and the Clees brothers were the owners of large tracts of land in Bell’s Bend of the Cumberland River, on its north bank. The Clees brothers owned 1,600 acres, bounded by the river on the…