Collins v. Consolidation Coal Co.

MILLIKEN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment quieting title in the appellees to a tract of land lying on Double Lick Fork of Daniels Creek in Johnson County, Kentucky. The suit involves the boundary line between the litigants’ lands, which is dependent upon the location of a so-called “conditional line” established in 1859 when Thomas Spears, under whom appellees’ claim, and Christopher Collins, under whom appellant claims, exchanged lands. The description in the Collins to Spears deed is as follows:

“Beginning at a black gum near a large rock on the conditional line between said…