Adams v. Rockwell
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
Error from the supreme court. Rockwell sued Adams in trespass quare clausum fregit, and for cutting down trees and carrying away saw logs. The defendant set up title in himself to the locus in quo. Both parties derived title from the same source, viz.
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Error from the supreme court. Rockwell sued Adams in trespass quare clausum fregit, and for cutting down trees and carrying away saw logs. The defendant set up title in himself to the locus in quo. Both parties derived title from the same source, viz. George Gillmore, to whom, on the 13lh December, 1785, was conveyed by the commissioners of forfeitures for the eastern district of this state, a tract of land of 2000 acres granted by letters patent to Edward Jessup and Ebenezer Jessup, which had been forfeited on their attainder. In the letters patent granted on the 10th April 1772, the…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinions were delivered :
By the Chancellor.
The first of these causes is an action of trespass brought by Rockwell against Adams, and the men in his employ, for cutting timber upon the premises in controversy ; and the other an action of replevin, to recover possession of the timber cut upon the same premises. The facts in both cases are substantially the same and the decision of one determines the other.
I do not perceive that the facts in either case, and the bill of exceptions thereon, present the question whether it Was competent for Rockwell to make a contract for the…
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