Ewing v. Leaton

This was a petition under the new code of practice, for trespassing upon the plaintiffs’ land, and cutting down and carrying off timber, &c. The petition is as follows : “ Plaintiffs state, that on the first day of April, A. D. 1849, and on divers other days in the months of April, May, June and July, 1849, defendants, without leave, and wrongfully, entered upon land not their own, to-wit: the west half of the south-west quarter of section number twenty, of township number forty-nine, and of range number twenty-seven, at the county of Lafayette and state of Missouri, of which land the…