Wilcox v. Blackwell

In the year 1838, A. W. Taylor and C. M. Gourley, as equal tenants in com*353mon, entered 5,000 acres of land situated in Carter County, and in 1849 they obtained a grant thereto from the State. Half a century later, other persons entered and obtained grants to 400 acres of the same land. Taylor and Gourley died, still owning their respective original and 'undivided interests in the 5,000 acres; and in January, 1891, the heirs and devisees of Taylor, as owners of his share, and C. N. Wilcox, who claimed to have purchased the moiety of Gourley’s heirs, tiled this bill, jointly, to restrain waste…