Burns v. Curran

The appellant brought this action of ejectment against the appellees to recover possession of the west half of section 5, township 6, range 6, in Peoria county. The defendants jointly pleaded not guilty. One of the defendants, the Banner Special Drainage and Levee District, filed a separate plea, alleging that by virtue of a quit-claim deed dated August i, 1912, executed by the defendant W. R. Curran and wife, it became the owner and possessed of a strip 200 feet wide extending across said land and became the owner of a perpetual easement in the same for the construction of its ditches, and…