Seymour v. Watson

Trespass quare clausum fregit. Plea, not guilty. Verdict and judgment below for the plaintiff. 1

It appeared in evidence, that the plaintiff and defendant were the proprietors of adjoining fields; that the defendant purchased his land of the United'States, and before his lines had been run, and while the plaintiff’s land was vacant, enclosed his field with a rail-fence made with his own rails, and that in doing so, he placed a part of the fence on the land of the United States, which the plaintiff afterwards purchased; and that the defendant moved the fence from the land of the plaintiff to…