Sullivan v. Clements

This was an action of trespass quare clausum fregit in the district court of Boulder county and thence removed to Jefferson, where appellee obtained judgment for $1,360. The description of the locus in quo in the declaration is according to the government survey, and is wholly unintelligible, except the last clause, which comprehends twenty acres of land. Rejecting that part of the description which we cannot understand and accepting that which is good, the declaration is for a trespass upon twenty acres of land, described according to the lines of the public survey. The only witness who…