Staub v. Hampton
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM GRUNDY. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Grundy County.— T. M. McConnell, Chancellor. M'R. Justice Neil made the following statement of facts: These- were ejectment hills brought to recover 5,900-acres of land lying* in Grundy county, the bill in the first-named case describing the land as follows: ' “5,900 acres of land lying in the Sixth and Eleventh districts of Grundy county, Tennessee, and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a stake on the east boundary…
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FROM GRUNDY. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Grundy County.— T. M. McConnell, Chancellor. M'R. Justice Neil made the following statement of facts: These- were ejectment hills brought to recover 5,900-acres of land lying* in Grundy county, the bill in the first-named case describing the land as follows: ' “5,900 acres of land lying in the Sixth and Eleventh districts of Grundy county, Tennessee, and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a stake on the east boundary line of the five thousand-acre tract, entered in the name of Carrol Brown' (alias Castle Brown), and forty-seven poles…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Heil
It is true the description contained in the deed is perfectly clear upon its face; but one term in that description necessitates an inquiry into matter dehors for the purpose of applying the description — that is, an inquiry into the location of the C. Brown entry. Upon the opening of this matter by evidence, it appeared that the parties to the conveyance had with them, when the preparatory survey was made, a map or maps which placed the Brown entry in a certain position; that is, assuming this to be correct, they began their survey upon the east *724boundary line of that entry at a point…
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