Doe v. Perkins

This action of trespass was brought for the recovery of mesne profits, &c. during the occupancy by Perkins, of the public square and buildings thereon in ,the town-of Augusta, which he had purchased at a sale made by the County Court of Bracken, under the authority of' an act of 1837, consequent upon the removal of the* Seat of Justice for the county, and which the trustees of the town had recovered from him in an action of ejectment, the facts and principles of which are stated in the case of The Trustees of Augusta vs Perkins, (3 B. Monroe, 437.) The jury having found a verdict of $335…