Cumberland Valley Land Co. v. Turner
Cumberland Valley Land Co. v. Turner
Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Affirming.
This suit was filed by the appellee, Turner, against the appellant company for the division of a tract of land known as the James Turner 600-acre survey. The petition alleged that appellee was the owner of an undivided one-ninth interest, the appellant company being the owner of the remainder. He asserted title to this interest under a deed from his father, James Turner, who it is claimed inherited the land sought to be divided from his father, James Turner, Sr., the patentee of the land.
The answer of the appellant company, after con
Upon these issues the case was tried in the lower court and a judgment rendered decreeing that appellee was entitled to an undivided one-ninth interest in the land.
Upon the question as to advancements made by James Turner, Sr., to his son, the father of appellee, the evidence is entirely insufficient to authorize us to hold that any advancement was made; and this branch of the ease may be disposed of without further notice.
Respecting the conveyance to Hiram Jones, this may be said — the evidence shows that James Turner, Sr., died about 1860, and that his son James after that time became involved in ‘trouble and as a result of this, in 1865 deeded to Hiram Jones, trustee, “three tracts of land, adjoining in Harlan county, on the Clover fork of Cumberland river, supposed to contain 2,000 acres, more or less, it being the same place on which the said James Turner now lives.” It is insisted by counsel for appellant that the deed shows that it was the intention of James Turner to convey to Hiram Jones all the land that he owned, and that the land in controversy was embraced in one of these three adjoining tracts, as James Turner did not own any other land except this body consisting of three tracts. The evidence, however, shows that the three tracts conveyed by James Turner to Hiram Jones were known as the “ James Fields,” “James Short” and “Dave Creech” farms, that had been deeded to him by his father James Turner, and that the land in which appellee claimed an interest was not embraced in eithej of these tracts.
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