Gentry v. . Gentry

If accepted in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs the evidence shows the following facts: In 1854 James ~W. Blackwell entered a tract of vacant land on Tellico River in Cherokee County, known as the Freeman land, and in the same year, (one witness said in 1864 or 1865) without obtaining a grant, executed his deed therefor to W. S. Gentry, the father of the plaintiffs and the defendant. Near the beginning of the Civil "War W. S. Gentry built a cabin on the land and put a tenant in it, who remained there ranging stock until the end of the war, and exercised other acts of dominion over…