Wright v. Orrell
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s county. This was an action of trespass guare clausum fregii, instituted by 'the appellants against the appellee, on the 10th, of February 1858, for breaking and entering “certain lands of the plaintiff’s, called ‘Ghesnut Meadoius,’ and cutting and taking timber trees therefrom.’ ’ The defendant pleaded, first, that he “did not commit the wrong alleged,” and secondly, “that the land called ‘Ghesnut Meadows,’ where the alleged…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Queen Anne’s county. This was an action of trespass guare clausum fregii, instituted by 'the appellants against the appellee, on the 10th, of February 1858, for breaking and entering “certain lands of the plaintiff’s, called ‘Ghesnut Meadoius,’ and cutting and taking timber trees therefrom.’ ’ The defendant pleaded, first, that he “did not commit the wrong alleged,” and secondly, “that the land called ‘Ghesnut Meadows,’ where the alleged trespass was committed, was his land.” Three exceptions were taken by the appellants, in the Court below, the first and…
1Opinion of the CourtCociiran, J.
This appeal was taken from a judgment in favor of the appellee, in an action of trespass q. c. /., brought l>y the appellants, for cutting timber on a tract of land called *154“Ohesnut Meadow,” claimed by them Tinder a sheriff’s deed, executed in October 1825, on a sale made in pursuance of- an execution on a judgment obtained against Henry Pratt,, in May 1822. The appellee took his defence on a plea that the title to the locus in quo was in himself, and in support of that defence, offered in evidence a sheriff’s deed, through which his title was derived, executed on a sale made in April 1822, in…
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