Haley v. Williams

The appellant brought this action against the appellees seeking to enjoin them from proceeding further in the construction
of a partition fence, which fence the Township Trustee had already begun to erect on and along a portion of the partition
line between the lands of the appellant Jesse Haley and the lands of the appellee Lillie Medlock, and asking for a restraining
order without notice. The issues were formed on the appellant's complaint and the answer of the appellee Dolphus Williams,
Trustee, and the answer of the appellees Medlock et al. Each denied the allegations contained in the appellant's complaint.
However, at a later date the appellee Medlock et al. filed a cross-complaint for declaratory judgment, to which the appellant
addressed an answer in denial. The appellant alleged in his complaint that he owned 54 acres of land in the SW 1/4 of S. 27, T. 3 N., R. 3 E. in Washington
County, Indiana, and the appellee Lillie Medlock owned 120 acres in the south half of said section which lay to the east and
south of appellant's land; that the appellees were trying to get appellant to build a portion of the partition fence on the
lines between said lands different from what the statute required him to build and that the trustee was already constructing
a portion of the fence for him contrary to the statute.