Swain v. Bartlow

This case came into the circuit court by an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace.

Trial and special finding by the court as follows:

“ That John T. Swain died testate, on the 4th day of January, 1874, the owner in fee-simple of a farm of eighty-nine acres of land in Madison county, Indiana, with one *547-dwelling-house thereon, and several fields under cultivation ; that the plaintiff is the widow of said decedent; that the defendant, in the fall of 1873, rented and sowed in wheat a certain field of eleven acres, on said farm, adjacent to said dwelling-house, which wheat was growing…