Walters v. Chamberlin

This cause was commenced in justice’s court, and is an action of trespass, brought by the plaintiff against the defendant for entering upon her land, and there digging up, excavating, and removing the dirt, and therewith covering up and destroying the grass upon the land growing, and making a ditch thereon, to her damage $100. Defendant pleaded the general issue, and gave notice that he would show on the trial that what he did in the premises was in the construction of a drain, duly laid out, authorized, and established by the township drain commissioner across the plaintiff’s land; that he…