Halligan v. Chicago & Rock Island Railroad

This was an action of trespass quare clausum fregit, brought by Halligan against the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company. The first three counts of the declaration alleged in substance, that the defendant, on the first of January, 1853, broke and entered two closes, the property of the plaintiff, situated in the county of La Salle, and described as the. west half of lot ten in block one hundred and fifty-two, and lot three in block sixteen, in the city of Peru, and pulled down and destroyed two houses standing thereon. The fourth count alleged, that the defendant “ on the day and year…