Washington Ice Co. v. Shortall

This was an action of trespass quare clausum fregit, brought in the circuit court of Cook county by Shortall, against the Washington Ice Company, for cutting, removing and appropriating, in January and February, 1879, a quantity of ice which had formed over the bed of the Calumet river, within the limits of plaintiff’s land, in Cook county. Defendant pleaded the general issue, and liberum tenementum. A verdict and judgment were rendered in favor of plaintiff for $562.40, which judgment, on appeal "to the Appellate Court for the First District, was affirmed, and defendant appealed to this…