Pleak v. Chambers

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Pleak brought an action of trespass quere clausum fregit, against Mary and Walker Chambers.

The defendants pleaded liberum tenementum, and, to sustain their plea, exhibited a regular chain of title from the patent of John Gore, deceased, dated the 16th day of March, 1786.

The plaintiff exhibited, or proposed to exhibit, a regular claim of title down to himself, from the patent of Peter Warner, dated the 2d day of December, 1785.

Both parties proved that their respective patents covered the land in contest.

The defendants, to avoid the effects of the…