Walterscheid v. Crupper

*628The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

James A. Crupper sued W. M. Walterscheid and Charles Walterscheid for damages, alleging in his petition that for several years he was in the peaceable possession of a dwelling-house in a suburb of Wichita occupied by himself and wife; that he was past seventy-four years of age; that on August 22, 1900, at a time when his wife was confined to her bed with sickness, the defendants and their agents forcibly entered upon the premises and wilfully and maliciously removed about one-half of the roof of the house and left it in that condition; that…