St. Louis National Stock Yards v. Wiggins Ferry Co.

This was an action of forcible detainer, brought by the Wiggins Ferry Company, in the St. Clair circuit court, against the St. Louis National Stock Yards, to recover a strip of land near East St. Louis, occupied by an embankment and railroad track, known as the “stock yard connecting track.” The complaint is in the usual form, charging that appellee is entitled to the possession of the premises, and that appellant, after demand made, unlawfully withholds the same from appellee. To this complaint appellant filed a plea formally traversing the charge “of unlawfully withholding possession of the…