Clark v. Banks

THE action was trespass quare clausem fregit, and the only plea was not guilty. In the spring of 1881 Edward A. McFarland, executor of John McFarland deceased, sold at public sale, as his executor, a field of growing wheat, containing about fifteen acres, on the deceased's farm, to Thomas T. T. Clark, the plaintiff, who afterwards rented the farm for a year from the executor for seven hundred and fifty dollars, and took posession of it as tenant on the 25th day of March in that year. About the 1st day of July the field of wheat thereon bought by him was harvested by him, and in the fall…