Kruse v. Vail

Plaintiff, Frank W. Kruse, is the owner of one hundred sixty acres of land and Hugh L. Dye is the owner of eighty acres adjoining the north half of plaintiff’s land on the west. The fence in controversy is that running north and south on the west line of plaintiff’s land and the east line of Dye’s land. Defendants are the township trustees of Pleasant Grove township.

Apparently some dispute had arisen between the two adjoining landowners as to the portions of the line fence to be maintained by each. At any rate, plaintiff, Kruse, visited attorneys in Montezuma, who wrote Dye under date of July…