Tipton v. Smith

OPINION

LEWIS, Judge.

This is a suit in ejectment asking the trial court to decree the title and right of possession of a disputed fourteen acre tract of land to be in plaintiffs and defendants’ claim thereto to be declared void and a cloud upon plaintiffs’ title.

Plaintiffs deraigned their title to the disputed tract through a chain of conveyances originating in Tennessee Grant No. 3002, dated May of 1833.

Defendants deraigned their title to the disputed tract through a chain of conveyances originating in Tennessee Grant No. 2473, dated May of 1832.

Plaintiffs also averred ownership of the…