White v. Peabody

Plaintiff brought trespass in justice’s court, describing his close as “Lot No. 10, and the adjoining portion of lot 12, occupied and owned by said plaintiff, in the Pusey plat in said village, and being the lot and land occupied as a homestead by said plaintiff.” Defendant gave notice:

“That the title to lands will come in question, and that, before the committing of the said supposed acts complained of in the plaintiff’s declaration, the village of Dundee had purchased a strip of land on lot 12 for a highway, and that whatever of the acts of the defendant complained of by the plaintiff were…