East St. Louis & Carondelet Railway Co. v. Nugent

Appellee brought ejectment to recover the whole of lot 6, block 29, of the platted town of Illinois, etc. Appellant (defendant) pleaded the general issue, and a further plea denying that it was in possession of or claimed any interest or title in so much of said lot 6 as lies east and north of a line parallel with and fifty feet distant from the center line of the right of way of the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad, being a diagonal strip of said lot, fourteen feet wide fronting on Brady street, and forty-three feet in width on the alley in the rear of said lot. A jury was waived,…