Bauscher v. City of Freeport

The plaintiff, Robert J. Bauscher, filed a complaint against the defendants, City of Freeport, a municipal corporation and Robert L. Kintzel, public engineer for the City. A motion to dismiss was filed, heard and allowed. The plaintiff elected to stand on his complaint and, therefore, appeals from the order dismissing the complaint as being substantially insufficient in law.

The body of the one-count complaint, consisting of nine paragraphs, relates that the plaintiff owned certain realty in the City of Freeport upon which, for a period of eight years, he maintained a barbed wire enclosure for…