Illinois Central Railroad v. Moore

This is trespass quare clausum fregit, brought November 4, 1893, by Amos F. Moore, against the Illinois Central Railroad Company. Four pleas—the general isshe, liberum tenementum, five years’ limitation and twenty years’ limitation—were filed to the one count in the declaration. A new assignment of the trespass was made, and the locus in quo as therein described is sufficiently designated, for the purposes of this decision, by indicating it as a strip of land fifty feet wide on the easterly side of and along and adjoining the easterly line of fence along the line of the tracks of the Illinois…