Woodruff v. Adams

Trespass quare clausum fregit. Plea, general issue; verdict and judgment for plaintiff.

The Court instructed the jury, that, if the lessor of land for the purpose of raising thereon a single crop on shares, was to receive his share of the product standing on the ground, he would not be a trespasser by entering on that part of the close on which his share was growing; but if the tenant was to deliver to him his portion of the harvest on other premises than those let, the tenant alone could maintain trespass for a breach of the close committed during the term of letting. The defendant excepted…