Hope v. Barnett

Action in ejectment, and for damages for detention of real estate and tearing down and removal of a fence. Answer denying all of the material allegations of the complaint, and alleging further, that the defendant Barnett was at the time of the alleged ouster overseer of the road district in which the real estate was situate; that the premises mentioned in the complaint were a public highway; that the fence mentioned was erected by the plaintiff, and by her permitted to stand in, and was an obstruction to, a certain public highway; that said defendant, as such overseer, notified plaintiff to…