Mendes v. De Cova

*637OPINION OP THE COURT BY

WATSON, J.

This is an action for damages resulting from an alleged trespass upon the lands of the plaintiff. There was a verdict of the jury and judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendant brings the case to this court by writ of error. It appears from the evidence and was admitted in the argument that the plaintiff and the defendant owned adjoining closes but there was a dispute as to the place where the true line between them was. “In trespass quare clausum fregit, which is a local action, if the declaration gives the boundaries of the locus in quo or…