Allen v. City of Vincennes

The appellants filed their complaint in the court below against the appellees, in which it is averred that the plaintiffs are the owners in fee of lots 165,166, 171 and 172, in Harrison’s addition to the city of Vincennes, hounded by the north-east side of Hart street; that they are in the actual possession thereof, having the same inclosed; that the common council of the city procured one Smith to make a survey of the street, who run the north-east line thereof from ten to fourteen feet too far north-east, so as to take that much of the plaintiffs’ lots for the street; that the defendant…