Willis v. Sproule

Error from Doniphan District Court. Trespass, brought by Willis and another against Frank Sproule and Thomas L. Chilton, for tearing down their fence. The defendants admitted the alleged acts of trespass, and set up in their answer that the place where the alleged trespass was committed was a public highway; that the defendant Sproule was overseer of highways, and that he took to his assistance the defendant Chilton, and removed the obstructions across said highway, which was a fence joining the farms of plaintiffs. The action was commenced before a justice of the peace, was certified to the…