Bridenbaugh v. Bryant

Calkins, C.

Township 28 of range 8 east, in Dixon county, was subdivided in 1858. Its settlement began in 1855, but, the -center of the township being- low and marshy, the north and south parts thereof Avere first occupied. In 1890 a highway, knoAvn as the “SAvamp road,” was established on the half section line east and west through section 16. The plaintiff became the owner of the north-east quarter of the southwest quarter of this section, and the defendant owned the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter thereof. The Swamp road Avas for some years treated as *330the boundary line between…