Carroll v. Rabberman

This was an action of ejectment begun in the circuit court of Madison county in 1898. There have been five trials,—three by jury and two by the court without a jury. Each party has had a new trial under the statute. One verdict was set aside by the trial court and one judgment was reversed by this court. (207 Ill. 253.) The last trial resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and a judgment thereon, to reverse which the defendant prosecutes this writ of error.

The parties own adjoining farms and the land in dispute is a strip of about two and a half acres on the line between them, 1617…