DEED OF LAND
This indenture made this 15th day of June in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-five, between DAVY CROCKETT FRONTIER LANDS, Inc., a body corporate under the laws of the State of Tennessee, with its principal office at Popcorn Village, near the Tennessee Capital, Nashville, Tennessee, hereinafter called the GRANTOR, and (Fill in your name) , hereinafter called the GRANTEE,
WITNESSETH:
That the GRANTOR, for good and valuable consideration to it in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, doth grant, bargain, sell, enfeoff, release, demise, convey, and confirm unto the GRANTEE, his or her heirs and assigns, forever, an estate in fee simple in and to a certain tract or parcel of land in the 5th Civil District of Franklin County, State of Tennessee, being located on DAVY CROCKETT MOUNTAIN, overlooking the Polly Crockett grave, near Bear Creek in Grizzly Bear Branch in the general area of Opossum Hollow and Ransom Hollow, and in the area of homeland and hunting grounds of DAVY CROCKETT, same being approximately 93 miles from POPCORN VILLAGE, the home of POPS-RITE POPCORN, and 91 miles from the Capitol Building of the State of Tennessee, and described as follows:
Being a tract of land one square inch in area which tract is a part of the following described acre of land to-wit:
One acre of land in Franklin County, Tennessee, being a part of that certain 3.1-acre tract described in deed dated the 4th day of June, 1955, and recorded in Book 90, page 571, Register’s Office for Franklin County, Tennessee, to which reference is here made. The one-acre tract herein conveyed is located in the northwest corner of the said 3.1-acre tract and is further particularly described as follows:
Beginning at an 18-inch walnut tree, the same being located 555 feet in a westerly direction from the southwest corner of a plow shed on the Reynolds lands as described by deed of record in Book 81, page 112, Register’s Office for Franklin County, Tennessee, running thence south 30 (deg.) west 208.8 feet to a stake; thence south 80 (deg.) east 208.8 feet to a stake; thence north 30 (deg.) east 208.8 feet to a stake; thence north 80 (deg.) west 208.8 feet to the point of beginning, containing one acre.
The tract herein conveyed is that certain one square inch in area referred to as Tract No. 1512693 in that certain deed from Forrest W. Larkin, et ux, to DAVY CROCKETT FRONTIER LANDS, INC., dated June 8, 1955, as of record in Book 90, page 591, Register’s Office for Franklin County Tennessee.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above described lands and premises, together with all and singular rights and appurtenances thereto and in any wise belonging unto the said GRANTEE, his or her heirs and assigns, forever, and to his or her sole use, benefit and behoof, forever, subject, nevertheless, to the reservations, limitations, provisos and conditions herein expressed and expressed in the deed of conveyance from the said Forrest W. Larkin, et ux, to DAVY CROCKETT FRONTIER LANDS, Inc., as of record in Book 90, page 591, Register’s Office for Franklin County, Tennessee, and the GRANTOR, for itself, its successors and assigns, doth hereby covenant, promise and agree to and with the GRANTEE, his or her heirs and assigns, in manner following, that is to say, that it shall be lawful for the GRANTEE, his or her heirs and assigns, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, peaceably and quietly, to enter the said lands and premises and to hold, occupy, possess and enjoy same without the lawful suit, hindrance, eviction, denial, or disturbance from or by the GRANTOR and also that the GRANTOR has a good, sure and perfect estate in fee simple in said lands and premises and good right, full power and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner and form as they are hereby sold and conveyed and mentioned, or intended so to do, and the same are free from encumbrances, **subject, however to the provisions** herein contained **and those conditions in said deed of record in Book 90, page 591, Register’s Office for Franklin County, Tennessee.**
And this conveyance and everything contained herein shall be wholly subject to a perpetual easement for ingress and egress to, from, over and upon the tract herein conveyed for the use of the owner, or owners, of all other tracts of the lands and premises herein described or further described and set forth in said deed of record in Book 90, page 591, Register’s Office for Franklin County, Tennessee, and without restricting the generality of the foregoing clause, the same shall not in any wise be construed as a derogation from the grant hereby affected to the GRANTEE herein and the GRANTOR hereby grants unto the GRANTEE a perpetual easement for ingress and egress to, from, over and upon any or all of the tracts of tracts of lands as described in the aforesaid deed of record in Book 90, page 591, Register’s Office for Franklin County, Tennessee, as may from time to time remain vested in the GRANTOR;
And the GRANTOR covenants with the GRANTEE that it has done no act to encumber the said lands and the GRANTOR releases to the GRANTEE all its claim upon such lands.
Of the lands owned in fee by GRANTOR, DAVY CROCKETT FRONTIER LANDS, Inc., one acre was conveyed to it by the aforementioned deed of record in Book 909, page 591, Register’s Office for Franklin County, Tennessee, which acre has been subdivided into 6,272,640 tracts of one square inch. The tract described in this deed is one of the 6,272,640 tracts. None of the 6,272,640 tracts are cultivated and there are no improvements or buildings upon any of said tracts. Since the tract hereby conveyed is only one square inch, the GRANTEE could not expect to receive any income from the tract and could not expect to occupy the tract.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the corporate seal of the GRANTOR has been affixed in the presence of the proper officers duly authorized in that behalf; the corporate seal of the DAVY CROCKETT FRONTIER LANDS, INC., was hereunto affixed in the presence of:
Jim Blevins, President
Lester York, Secretary-Treasurer
The whole thing sounds pretty airtight to me EXCEPT FOR the part shown above in BOLD. wherein the recorded deed COULD, I suppose, have some nullification or limitation clause that is not restated here.
It also gives me (and every other tract owner) the right to trapse across my (and every other tract owner’s) tract, but in theory I should be able to prevent any and all NON-OWNERS of the tracts from encroaching on the land (I think). IANAL despite the ESQ. appendage. (“RedDawg” was already taken when I lately entered the SDMB realm.)
Let the bidding begin!
