Earp v. Lee
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Warren county; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
Appellant brought trespass quare clausum fregit, against appellees, to recover damages for breaking and entering a storehouse, and for tearing down and destroying the same. A second count was added, for taking personal property from the house, and destroying it. Defendants filed the general issue, and a special plea that plaintiff kept liquors in the house to sell, and did sell the same in less quantities than one quart, without a license; that he kept therein a disorderly house; that persons of bad repute were allowed to assemble there, so that the house was a source of great annoyance to…
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