Continental Realty Co. v. Bolen

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Moorman

Reversing.

This appeal involves a controversy over the title to. some branded trees on a tract of 45 acres of land. Marga*220ret Bolen, the appellee, was the wife of Sherman Martin, who in 1903 made a survey of and entry on approximately 150 acres of land on a branch of Troublesome creek in Knott county. On October 29, 1903, he assigned the survey to appellee and on April 1, 1904, she procured a patent to it from the State of Kentucky.

The Continental Realty Company, one of appellants, claims title to the timber through George Martin, the father of Sherman…