A Question Of Damage

Charles L. Allen bas commenced suit in the circuit court against Wila P. and Benjamin W. Lamkin for damages, alleging that, in 1884, he leased sonie ground in tlie village of Milan of Lamkin for ten years and on it constructed a two story frame building, used for a blacksmith, wagon and paint shop, f rom which he received a rental of $200 a year. He claims that the defendants afterward erected a brick building so that part of it occupied land leased by him, and that-they interfered or so threatened to interfere with his occhpancy of the land that they induced the tenants to vacate his blacksmith shop and to occupy the brick building built by them, in June last, and that the brick building has so injured the frame blacksmith and wagon shop that it has since remained vacant. Hon. Chas. R. Whitman appears as attorney for the ülaintiff.