Taylor & Crate v. Breathitt Coal, Iron & Lumber Co.

COCHRAN, District Judge.

This cause is under submission for final decree. I had intended to write a more elaborate opinion in this case than I now purpose to do, though it is apt to be quite elaborate as it is. The particulars, which I had intended to elaborate, but will not, concern the question of possession of the land in contest. This involved a visualization of the land itself, a presentation of the whole law of Kentucky as to possession, covering all the earlier decisions of the Kentucky Court of Appeals which gave it form, and a statement of the true history of what had been done in…