Duggan v. Ryan

This is an action of ejectment, brought by appellee to recover the west thirteen feet and four inches of a tract of land bounded by a line beginning at the north-west corner of block No. 29, as shown on the recorded plat of the village of Dalton City, Illinois; running thence south two hundred feet; thence west two hundred feet; thence north two hundred feet; thence east two hundred feet to the place of beginning. The pleas were the general issue, and a sworn plea denying that appellant was in possession of the tract which appellee soug'kt to recover. The suit was originally tried by a jury…