Bradley v. Dibbrell
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM WHITE. Chancery Court at Sparta, March Term, 1860. S. J. W. Lucky, Ch., presiding by interchange, overruled the demurrer. Final decree, September Term, 1867, before B. M. TillmaN, Ch. cited, as to demurrer, Woods v. North, 6 Hum., 309 to 313; 4 Hum., 66; 1 Head., 640. On the verification of the answer, he cited, Code, 4398.
1Opinion of the CourtNelson, J.
The demurrer to the amended bill was properly overruled by the Chancellor. Taken in connection with the original bill, the case stated, is briefly, as follows: That Daniel Griffith, on the 10th of April, 1848, conyeyed to the complainant, six tracts of land, by metes and bounds; the deed containing a covenant of warranty; that, among them is a tract of thirty acres, of which neither of the parties ever had possession; that, of this thirty acres, nineteen and three-fourth acres were claimed and held by John Jetts, and his heirs, under grants No. 2496, dated 31st of August, 1825, which was the…
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