Morris v. Thomas Forman Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing.

Wm. Burns owned several contiguous tracts of land in Owsley county, upon one of which he lived and died. Title was derived through various patents, each of which was held in severalty, there being no outside boundary amalgamating all into one body. Lying near the center of these tracts was a long irregular shaped body of vacant land, embracing 70 acres, the sides of which were touched upon by the other tracts, but which had no marked boundaries. Apparently Burns thought this was covered by one of the patents under which he held title, and was…