Great Onyx Cave

Shortly thereafter, when Turner died (probably of pneumonia), Edwards claimed that he discovered the cave.

[4] The Great Onyx Case was also the subject of litigation that reached Kentucky's high courts in 1929 (232 Ky. 791, 24 S.W.2d 619).

Edwards was successfully sued by a neighboring landowner (Lee) who alleged that the cave ran underneath his property.

However, the basis of this ruling has been subject to much controversy: invoking the user principle of damages for trespass, the plaintiff ought to have been due only reasonable rental value of the land.

[7] Legend has it that this was the revenge of Turner, who was never able to profit from his discovery of Great Onyx Cave, against Edwards.