Sharpe v. McCloud

KNIGHT, Justice.

Statutory ejectment.

The appellants, plaintiffs in the court below, brought this action to recover of Minerva McCloud a certain described lot in the City and County of Montgomery. The cause was tried by the court without a jury, and judgment was rendered against the plaintiffs. There were seven plaintiffs in the court below, and all join in the present appeal.

In this jurisdiction it is a rule, as old as our jurisprudence, that in ejectment, where the action is possessory, plaintiffs must recover, if they recover at all, on the. strength of their own title, and not on…