McKinney v. Raydure

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

The question, involved on this appeal is the title to a tract of land containing 172 acres, lying in Estill county, Kentucky. It arises in this way; Prior to his death Joel McKinney was the owner of a large body of land in that county, a portion of which extended into Powell county, which was known and had been for more than a half century, as the Cottage Furnace tract. That body of land was a complete circle with a diameter of six miles, and in the center of which was a furnace stack which had been constructed many years ago and where a furnace…