Lewis v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

The defendant appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of Menard County entered pursuant to section 13 of “An Act in regard to forcible entry and detainer” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 57, par. 13). The judgment awarded possession of the premises to plaintiff.

Plaintiff owned the fee simple title to the premises which were a strip of land 55 feet wide and 3,960 long and constituted the westerly portion of a larger tract. The strip had been dedicated as an easement for highway purposes some years earlier by the plaintiff and a rural public highway existed thereon.

Defendant entered into…