Bauer v. Gottmanhausen

This was an action quare clausum fregit, brought by appellee, in the Superior Court of Chicago, against appellant. Defendant pleaded liberum tenementum, and thereupon plaintiff new assigned and described the close by metes and bounds, which was a strip of ground on the north side of the close, being seven feet in width at the west end, on Clark street, diminishing in width to five feet at its western extremity. To the new assignment- defendant pleaded not guilty and liberum tenementum, to the latter of which plaintiff in error replied 20 years possession of locus in quo. Issues were formed on…