Stowell v. Prentiss

On March 14, 1861, Oliver J. Parkhill owned in fee simple the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 4, township 11, north, range 8,-.east of the fourth principal meridian, in Peoria county. A public highway ran in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction near the north boundary of the land and the tract was unenclosed. Toward the northeast corner of the land, about 565 feet south of its north line, there was a spring of considerable size, commonly known as the sulphur spring. Water was scarce in the neighborhood at the time, and the inhabitants of the territory within a…