De Clemente v. Winstanley

This was an action in ejectment. The complaint, in brief, alleged plaintiffs’ ownership “ in fee of the premises No. Í85 York street, in this city, consisting of a house and lot, said lot being twenty-five feet in front and rear by one hundred feet in depth on each side; ” that defendants owned the adjoining lot on the west; that defendants had erected a fence between said two lots which was not on the true division line, and had also erected a building partly on the land of plaintiffs and partly on their own land; that defendants refused to remove said fence and building off plaintiffs’…