Legal Opinion

Snider v. Myers

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1869PublishedCited by 5 opinions

This was an action of trespass quare clausam fregit, brought to August rules, 1866, in Hampshire county. The declaration averred that on the 1st day of September, 1863, the defendant with force and arms, &e., broke and entered the close, of the plaintiffs, situated in the town of Eomnej7, “and other wrongs to them the said plaintiffs then and there did, &c.”

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This was an action of trespass quare clausam fregit, brought to August rules, 1866, in Hampshire county. The declaration averred that on the 1st day of September, 1863, the defendant with force and arms, &e., broke and entered the close, of the plaintiffs, situated in the town of Eomnej7, “and other wrongs to them the said plaintiffs then and there did, &c.” On the trial, had in February, 1867, the plaintiffs offered evidence to show the pulling down of the house on the close, to which the defendant objected, but his objection being overruled, he excepted. The plaintiffs proved title in…

1Opinion of the CourtBerkshire, J.

This is an action of trespass quare clausam fregit. There is but one count in the declaration and but one trespass charged in it, viz: that the defendant with force and arms broke and entered a certain close of the plaintiffs, situated in the town of Romney, in the county of Hampshire ; and the usual alia enormia is added.

On the trial two bills of exceptions to the ruling of the court were taken by the defendant. The first is for allowing the plaintiffs to give evidence, under the declaration, of the pulling down of a certain house of the plaintiffs, which the *197court certifies in the bill of…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Wilson v. Phoenix Powder Manf'g Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1895
  2. Dower v. ChurchWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1882
  3. Storrs v. FeickWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1884
  4. Cain v. FisherWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1905
  5. Knapp v. Alexander-Edgar, Lumber Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1911

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