Cumberland Coal & Iron Co. v. Jeffries
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany County : This was an action oí'trespass brought by George Jeffries against the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company and others. The declaration charged that the defendants had broken and entered upon the plaintiff’s laud called ‘ffi’he Anderson Farm,” and then and there “took possession of tbe same, an I then and there trod down, trampled upon and destroyed the plaintiff’s grass and crops,” &e. The defendants pleaded separately.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Allegany County : This was an action oí'trespass brought by George Jeffries against the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company and others. The declaration charged that the defendants had broken and entered upon the plaintiff’s laud called ‘ffi’he Anderson Farm,” and then and there “took possession of tbe same, an I then and there trod down, trampled upon and destroyed the plaintiff’s grass and crops,” &e. The defendants pleaded separately. The Cumberland Coal and lion Company pleaded the general issue, and also that at the time of the alleged trespasses the land in…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldsborough, J.
The principal question for this Court to decide in the above case, arises on a motion to dismiss the appeal, upon the ground, that it is prayed and brought up at the instance and on the prayer of one only of the four joint defendants.
It appears from the record that the appellee instituted an action of trespass quare clausum fregit, charging the appellant, together with the three other defendants named in the appellee’s declaration, with entering certain lands called the “Anderson Farm,” of which the appellee claims he was in the lawful possession at the time of the alleged trespass. The…
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