City of Fort Wayne v. Hamilton

— This was an action brought by the appellees against the appellant to recover for the taking of a strip of land for a street.

*488The complaint alleges that the appellant, on the — day of- 1873, unlawfully entered upon and took possession of a strip of land, sixty feet in breadth, and extending north and south through the Hamilton homestead in said city, then and ever since the property of the appellees, with the view of extending Clinton street, in said city, through and across said homestead, without the consent and against the will and protest of the appellees; that the appellant proceeded…