Cromie v. Hoover

The appellee, on the 23d day of March, 1867, filed his complaint in the Tippecanoe Circuit Court, against the appellants, in which he averred that he was the owner and entitled to the possession of certain described real estate in Tippecanoe county, and that the appellants held possession thereof without right, and had for four months last past kept the plaintiff out of possession.

To this complaint Cromie answered, denying his possession of the property in controversy, except a portion thereof, about one hundred feet square, on which his ice-houses were erected, and averring that as to the…