Thompson v. Mead
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. Joseph Gillespie, Judge, presiding. This was an action of trespass, originally brought by Joshua Thompson, against J. Pool Mead, George W. Mead and George W. Richardson, before a justice of the peace of Madison county. On the trial before the justice the defendants were found guilty, and the plaintiff’s damages assessed at $69 and costs of suit.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. Joseph Gillespie, Judge, presiding. This was an action of trespass, originally brought by Joshua Thompson, against J. Pool Mead, George W. Mead and George W. Richardson, before a justice of the peace of Madison county. On the trial before the justice the defendants were found guilty, and the plaintiff’s damages assessed at $69 and costs of suit. The defendants appealed to the circuit court, where a trial was had, resulting in a verdict and judgment for the defendants, from which the plaintiff prosecuted this appeal. The facts of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
The demised premises were one and indivisible. The house and land were rented at the same time—the rent for the first named to be paid in money \ of the other, in kind—and was rented to one and the same party. The farm, a portion of which was demised, was in one body; a part in one township, and partin another, a public road running on the county line. The road did not make the premises two farms. Section 8 of the act respecting landlords and tenants, ch. 60, R. S. 1845, provides that every landlord shall have a lien upon the crops growing or grown upon the demised premises, in any year, for…
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