Edinger v. Woodke

This action was brought in justice’s court to recover damages for an alleged trespass upon certain lands described in the declaration, and claimed to be owned by plaintiff, and of which he was then in possession. The declaration alleges, substantially, that the defendants on, to wit, September 15, 1896, stretched some barbed wire across and upon a portion of the land described in the declaration, and that about a year after-wards plaintiff’s cows were injured by these barbed wires. ’J'he defendants pleaded title, and the cause was removed to the circuit court for trial. On a trial before a…