Sequatchie & South Pittsburg Coal & Iron Co. v. Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway Co.
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM GRUNDY. Appeal from the Chancery Court of G-rnndy County. —Y. C. Allen, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Neil
The bill was filed in the chancery court of Grundy county to recover three tracts of land, 642 acres, 142 acres, and 190 acres, all lying inside defendant’s Mc-Ewen grant No. 7892, the first two tracts within complainant’s Samuel B. Barrell grant No. 5099, the last lying partly within the grant last mentioned, and partly within complainant’s Samuel B. Barrell grant No. 5090. The Barrell grants are the oldest, hut the McEwen grant purports to be based on an entry in the name of Church Lanier antedating the said Barrell grants, and if that entry was special within the meaning of that term in…
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- Southern Iron & Coal Co. v. SchwoonTennessee Supreme Court · 1910
- Kellogg v. WoodNew York Court of Chancery · 1834
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