Norton v. Bumpus

The trial court sustained demurrers to the defendant’s pleas 4, 5, and 6, as originally filed and as amended, and these rulings pre sent the only question insisted upon on this appeal.

The case was tried on counts 2 and 3 as last amended. The second count is in trespass quare clausum fregit de bonis asportatis, alleging that “defendant broke into the plaintiff’s close or lot in Decatur, Alabama, and wrongfully, willfully and in known disregard of the plaintiff’s rights, and maliciously took therefrom two bales of cotton, and took out of plaintiff’s stable one wagon load of seed cotton…