Hill v. Forkner

Newcomb, C.

The appellant sued to recover about one acre of ground designated .as “the slaughter-house lot,” lying east of and adjoining the eastern bouudary of the town of Centreville. The complaint further contained a description by metes and bounds of the demanded premises, giving the west boundary line as “beginning at a stake where the south side of Water street intersects the east boundary of the corporation of the town of Centreville; thence north along said corporation line 20 poles and ten links to the south side of the Indiana Central Railway.” The complaint also alleged that, when…