Ball v. State

This was an information for forcible entry and detainer, under sec. 12 of the misdemeanor act. The premises were thus described in the information: “the following described land, and the first story of the building situate thereon, viz., the north-east corner of lot number one hundred, as designated on the original plat of the town of Lafayette,” &e. The proof showed the premises entered to be a building situated on the lot, thirty .feet from the east line of it, as laid down on the plat referred to, and extending to the north line; that more than twenty years ago the city purchased that…