Stockton v. Murray

This is an ejectment suit instituted by Stockton and others against Murray and others to recover 1,500 acres of land in Fentress and Morgan Counties and damages for timber cut and removed by the defendants.

The defendants denied that the complainants were the owners of said land or had title to it, and they denied that they had cut or removed any timber from lands owned by the complainants. De-fenant Charlie Murray denied that he had executed any deed for the land in controversy to S. W. Winningham, complainants’ predecessor in title, and alleged that if there was such deed it was obtained by…