Central Baptist Church & Society v. Manchester

This is an action of trespass and ejectment to recover possession of a parcel of land, situated in Tiverton, known as “ The Fort Point Lot.”

The defendant pleads the general issue, and also an additional plea, in which he sets forth that in a suit of trespass quare clausum brought by him in this court against one James B. Church, the defendant therein, said Church pleaded in bar to the suit that the soil and freehold in the locus, which was the same described in the declaration in the present suit, was in the Central Baptist Church, the present plaintiff, and justified the doing of the alleged…