Bolster v. Catterlin

The complaint in this case charges that Catterlin, who was the plaintiff, was the owner in fee of an eighty-acre tract of land lying on both sides of a section line; that in the year 1835 a county road was located on said line, across the middle of the land, dividing it into two forty-acre tracts, which was opened as located, upon the line run by the government, and while the blazes were yet visible; that in the same year the plaintiff built a dwelling house, and commenced making improvements on his land —fenced the road on both sides, where it passes through the land, and has built his…