Carter v. Wallace

The defendant in error filed his petition in the district court,. alleging that the plaintiffs in error, and defendants in that court, “did with force and arms enter your petitioner’s close, lying and situated in the county aforesaid, and pulled down and removed from thence your petitioner’s fence and converted the same to their own use;” by which he avers his “farming operations were retarded,” etc., and concludes by laying his damages at one thousand dollars.

The answer is a general denial.

The only questions which we think properly presented by the record for our consideration arise upon the…