Kentucky Nat. Park Commission v. Dennison

Opinion op the Court by

Morris, Commissioner—

Reversing in part and affirming in part.

Appellant, an agency created for the purpose of purchasing a large acreage in the Mammoth Cave area, was defendant below; appellee was plaintiff. We shall refer to the parties as plaintiff and defendant.

Plaintiff owned in fee a tract of land in Hart County, which, in the description in a deed, was said to contain 245 acres. Immediately adjacent to his tract was one owned by the heirs of J. W. Dennison, containing 521.84 acres, of which plaintiff, one of the heirs, owned an undivided interest. Both tracts…