Ward v. Crane

On the 4th of August, 1832, two justices of the peace filed in the clerk’s ofiice of the Circuit Court, a transcript of certain proceedings, which had taken place before them, in an action of forcible entry and detainer. The suit was commenced by Phebe Ann Crane and Emetine Crane, minors, by their next friend, against John Ward and Ebenezer Douglass. The complaint was, that on the-day of-, 1829, the defendants, with force and arms, at, &c. made an unlawful and a forcible entry into a tract of land, which is particularly described, and expelled the complainants out of said land, and with…