Holmes v. Wright

Complaint by the appellant against the appellee, alleging that the defendant wrongfully entered upon certain lands therein described, belonging to the plaintiff, and of which he was in the possession, and trampled and beat down the grass thereon, and tore and cut up the soil, and took and carried away three thousand rails in a fence on said land, and turned the plaintiff’s cattle and hogs, feeding and pasturing on said land, out into the highway, etc.

The general denial was filed, and an agreement of the parties entered into, that special matters of defense and reply might be given in evidence…