Nelson v. Wilson

— The plaintiff and O. C. Wilson were tenants of adjoining farms, the S. W. % and the S. E. %, respectively, of section 11, in Willow township. The owners had erected a division fence between the quarters about twenty-three years before — plaintiff’s landlord the north half, and Wilson’s landlord the south half — in pursuance of an oral agreement, and thereunder have since maintained their respective parts. But the south half of the fence was never “a lawful or good and substantial fence,” but was built “of sticks for posts, set from fifteen to twenty, feet apart, and some further; and that…