Boyer v. Robertson

The appellees sued the appellant to recover possession of two certain town lots and four acres of land, the complaint being in the ordinary form for the recovery of possession of real estate, except that the description of the four acres was defective.

The circuit court overruled a demurrer to the complaint. A trial of the issue formed upon the complaint resulted in a special verdict, upon which the court rendered a judgment for the plaintiffs over a motion for judgment in defendant’s favor and a motion for a venire de novo.

The only tenable objections to the special verdict which we find are…