Hill v. Moore

This action was brought in the chancery court of Jefferson county to recover a part of a 15-acre tract of land described in the pleadings. The complainant de-raigned a complete title from the State. The defendants, however, insist that one link in the chain of title, consisting of a clerk and master’s deed, is defective, because that deed is not supported by the record of the cause in which the land Avas sold; hence that, within the rule laid doAvn in Castleman v. Land Co., 1 Tenn. Ch. App., 9, 12, 13, the complainants cannot recover. The case stated • does fall within the authority cited,…