Ward v. Mississippi River Power Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison county; the Hon. William E. Hadley, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1914. Transferred to Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Higbee
delivered the opinion of the court.
The declaration filed in this case by Solomon Ward, appellee, was in trespass vi et armis, and alleged that the Mississippi River Power Company, appellant, on July 14, 1913, and at other times, with force and arms against the protest of appellee, destroyed his timber growing npon certain of his lands to the value of eight hundred dollars. Appellant filed the general issue and three pleas of liberum tenementum. Thereafter, the court entered an order striking all the special pleas from the files and providing therein that appellant…
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