McFarlane v. Ray

Cooley J.

At the common law, where the defendant pleads liberum tenementum to a declaration in trespass quare clausum, if the declaration does not contain a particular description of the premises, the plaintiff is always liable to be defeated by the defendant showing title in himself to any parcel of land which would come within the general description given; that is to say, which lies within the township named. The declaration in the present case was of this general character, and the defendants had annexed to their plea of the general issue, a notice of title in Frederick Ray; thus…