Bolden v. Sherman

This was an action of ejectment, brought by Sherman against Stevens and his tenant, Borden, for the recovery of six feet of land fronting west on State street, and lying between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, in the city of Chicago, being 170 feet deep. On trial before the court without a jury, there were a finding and judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendants appealed.

Sherman and Stevens are coterminous proprietors, Sherman on the south and Stevens on the north, and the controversy respects the boundary line running east and west between their lands. The six feet in question lies in…