O'Connell v. Bowman
Appellate Court of Illinois
In error to tlie Circuit Court of Brown County; the Hon. William Marsh, Judge, presiding.' Acceptance is a pure question of fact, to be found by the jury, unbiased by intimations from the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pleasants
This was an action of trespass, commenced by plaintiff in error August 15, 1890. The declaration alleged that on the 10th of April preceding, the defendants broke his close, to wit: The E. S. W. jj, Sec. 16, T. 1 South, B. 1 West, in said county, and destroyed his fence standing thereon. Verdict not guilty; a new trial denied, and judgment for defendants for their costs.
It was admitted that plaintiff had owned the premises described, which were bottom lands between the bluffs and the bed of the Illinois river, and had • been continuously in possession, from August 25, 1861, to the time of the…
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- Willey v. PeopleAppellate Court of Illinois · 1890