Dumoss v. Francis
Illinois Supreme Court
This cause was heard before Wilkinson, Judge, without the intervention of a jury, at November term, 1851, of the Rock Island Circuit Court.
1Opinion of the CourtTreat, C. J.
This was an action of trespass quare clausum fregit, brought by Francis against Dumoss and others. The declaration alleged in substance, that the defendants, on the 7th of October, 1850, broke and entered the close of the plaintiff, situated in the county of Rock Island, and described as the north-west quarter of section twenty-nine, in township sixteen, north of range five west. The defendants pleaded three pleas: 1. Not guilty. 2. That there was a public highway over the close; that the same was obstructed by the plaintiff; and that the defendants, having occasion to pass over the highway,…
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