Start v. Clegg

Morris, C.

The appellant sued the appellees, alleging in his complaint that he was and had been, since the 2d day of January, 1879, the owner in fee and in the possession of a part of survey 274, in the Illinois Grant, designated as forty acres in an exact square in the southeast corner of the west half of said survey No. 274, and being the same land conveyed to him by Eichard Conden, by deed dated January 2d, 1879; that on the 5th day of January, 1879, and on divers days since then, the defendants, without leave, wrongfully and unlawfully entered upon said land and cut down and destroyed a…