This week's Kentucky historic photo of the week is this portrait of Kentucky Court of Appeals Judge E. C. O'Rear, one of the most important Kentucky jurists of the turn of the last century.
Judge O'Rear, while in private practice, is said to have developed the concept of the broad form deed, which allowed for the sale of the mineral interest in real estate aside from the surface rights, a form of conveyance that has been severely limited in modern times.
Judge O'Rear was one of the best known lawyers and political figures of his day.
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