Morrison v. Robinson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error, to the Common Pleas of Payette county. This wms an action of trespass for mesne profits, brought by Ann Morrison against Eleazar Robinson and William Thorn-dell, Jr. The previous ejectment, in which the plaintiff recovered the premises, is reported in 1 Casey 326. The plaintiff was one of the heirs at law of Zadock Springer, and took the premises in question under proceedings in partition.
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Error, to the Common Pleas of Payette county. This wms an action of trespass for mesne profits, brought by Ann Morrison against Eleazar Robinson and William Thorn-dell, Jr. The previous ejectment, in which the plaintiff recovered the premises, is reported in 1 Casey 326. The plaintiff was one of the heirs at law of Zadock Springer, and took the premises in question under proceedings in partition. On the 16th February 1848, by her separate deed (to which her husband, Noah Morrison, was not a party) she conveyed the property to Samuel Bryan, who entered and erected valuable and permanent…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Lowrie, C. J.
Our natural sense of justice furnishes the ground and the measure of compensation for injuries done by one man to the property of another, and demands an adequate remedy to obtain it. On this sense of justice the action of trespass for mesne profits is founded, and of course it is not intended to be administered so as to work injustice. It is not distinguished in *459its nature, but only by its special application, from the general action of trespass.
Trespasses to personal property are usually very easily measured by the value of the property…
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