Atchley v. Latham

THIS is an action of trespass quare clausum fregit, and the plaintiff in error proved that he was in actual possession of the house and tenements in the declara, tion mentioned, when the defendant entered and put-him out, violently, and demolished the houses; that he, the plaintiff, married one of the female heirs of Robert Smith, who possessed said tenement, and died thereon in 1804, leaving the premises to his children, who were infants], and some of them continued so until the time of this trial; and he also produced a patent for the laud, dated in 1819. to said heirs.

The defendant, (who…