Speed v. Turner

CULLEN, Commissioner.

This appeal involves the title to a tract of 45 acres near the top of Pine Mountain in Harlan County. The plaintiff in the lower , court, William S. Speed as trustee for himself and another, appeals from á judgment quieting the title in the defendants, John L. Turner and George Holbrook.

Speed claims under the C. O. Lockard patent of November 4, 1873, which covered some 40,000 acres. Turner and Holbrook claim under the Calvin Nofin patent of April 3, 1876, which embraced 100. acres. Speed contends: (1) The Lockard grant is superior to the Nolin grant; and (2) the No-lin…