Sidener v. Norristown, Hope, & St. Louis Turnpike Co.

The appellants, who were the plaintiffs below, allege by their. complaint that they are seized of a certain quarter section of land; that the turnpike company, defendant, intending to locate the route of their road on the south line of the plaintiffs’ land, so as to occupy twenty-two and a half feet in width of their land across the south end thereof, and a like quantity of the land abutting on the south, but mistaking the location of said south line, actually surveyed and staked off a route for their road, not upon the south line, but almost entirely north thereof, so as to take the whole…