Manrose v. Parker

In the year 1847, the public authorities of Bureau county laid out a road, a part of which was on the section line between sections 13 and 24 in a certain township, the road being sixty feet wide, and the centre thereof the section line. In the fall of 1855, Parker, the owner of the south-west quarter of section 13, fenced said quarter section on the south. At that time the land next south was all inclosed, and Parker built his fence so as to leave four rods in width between it and the fence south of it.

From the time Parker built his fence, in 1855, until the winter of 1872, no change was…