Roloson v. Barnett

The appellee, State’s attorney of Douglas county, filed the bill in this case in the circuit court of said county in behalf of the People and on the relation of the commissioners of highways of the town of Bowdre, against the appellant, James F. Barnett, praying the court to enjoin the defendant from building, constructing or replacing a fence along a public highway adjoining his seventeen-acre tract of land on the west, on a line alleged to encroach upon the highway fourteen feet at the north end and eleven feet at the south end. The bill alleged that when the highway was laid out John Seipp…