Hamilton v. Ely

The bill in this case charges, that the complainants were seized in their demesne, as of fee, as tenants in common of a certain tract of land containing thirty-one and one-quarter acres, more or less, lying and being partly in Howard district, and partly in Baltimore county, called Ely's Chance. That the respondents, “co-operating and confederating together, and acting jointly, have entered upon said tract of land and cut down large quantities of wood, and quarried large quantities of limestone, and that they are continuing to cut down wood and quarry stone ; and as the complainants believe,…