Page v. Boehmer

This was an action to recover damages for an alleged trespass in removing a certain fence in the township of Lee, in Calhoun county. The defendants justified under the claimed statutory authority of the defendant Stultz to remove the fence as an obstruction of a public highway. The proceedings to lay out the alleged highway were founded upon a petition signed, among others, by William H. Hoag, describing the proposed highway as follows:

“Commencing on the section line running east and west between sections twenty (20) and twenty-nine (29) of said township where said section line intersects the…