Hinchman v. Whetstone
Illinois Supreme Court
The facts of this case are fully stated in the opinion of Mr. Justice Walkeb. The cause was tried at the October term, 1856, of the Adams . Circuit Court, before Sibley, Judge, and a jury. The damages were assessed at one hundred and twenty dollars, and judgment was rendered accordingly.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This was an action of trespass quare clausum fregit, commenced in the Adams Circuit Court, by Whetstone against Hinchman and John Loomis, and was tried by the court and a jury, at the October term, 1856. The declaration was for breaking and entering a lot of ten acres of ground in the limits of the city of Quincy, being a part of S. E. 35, 1 S;, 9 W. The defendants plead the general issue; title in Loomis; title to an undivided half in Loomis; title in defendants ; and, title to an undivided half in defendants. On each of these pleas, there was an issue to the country. It was admitted on the…
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