Tull v. Anderson

By the Court,

Beatty, C. J. :

This action was originally commenced in a justice’s court, to recover one hundred and fifty dollars, the alleged value of hay growing on land claimed by plaintiff, which the defendant was charged to have converted by entering upon the land with force and arms.

On the filing of a verified answer denying plaintiff’s right to the locus in quo, and setting up a claim thereto on the part of the defendant, the justice decided that the determination of the action would necessarily involve a question of possession, and right of possession, of real property, and thereupon…