Chandler v. De Graff

Many of the questions raised by the plaintiff are practically disposed of by the decision of a matter of pleading. The complaint alleges that in the year 1872 the defendants “wrongfully took, carried away, and converted to their own use a large number of railroad cross-ties, to wit, 26,000 and more ties, the property of said plaintiff, and which were lying and being near the line of the Northern Pacific railroad, between a point thereon ten miles east of Brainerd, Minn., and a point near the crossing of the Crow Wing river of said last-named railroad in said state. ” The answer denies “that…