West v. Blake

This was an action of trespass quare clausum fregit. Blake declared against West and others for breaking *235and entering his closes, alleging in aggravation of damages, the throwing down- and destroying .his fences, gates, the trampling his grass, herbage, and grain, and tearing up and spoiling his soil, &c. Pleas, first, the general issue; secondly, a special plea alleging that when, &c., there were common and public highways, commonly called streets and alleys of the town of Indianapolis, through, over, and along the closes in which, &c.; that in passing and re-passing over the said ways, they…