Case ID: h-mch_4/html/0507-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MAY TERM, 1768.
    Ridgely et al. Lessee, vs. Britton.
    Ejectment for sundry tracts of land lying in Ealtijjiore county, viz. Boreing’s Forest, CuckoUlmakefs JIu
      
      fiará, and Boreing’s Gift General defence, and plots returned.
    A special verdict found at the April assizes stated the following facts.
    
      I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, arc the same facts as found in the special verdict in the preceding case of Britton, qui tarn, et at vs, Ridgely.
    
    9. Brítton possessed, &c. until Boreing’s deed to the lessors of the plaintiff. *
    10. That after the contract, 9th. of February 1765, Mbsalom Boreing arrived to age.
    II. That afterwards, to wit, 27th July 1765, Boreing executed his deed of bargain and sale to the lessors of the plaintiff, which was duly acknowledged and recorded, and the consideration paid.
    12. That afterwards, and before the 1st of September 1765, (the day of the demise in the. declaration,) the lessors of the plaintiff entered into the lands, claiming them, and gave notice to Britton of their deed, and required him to relinquish possession.
    13. That the lands in the patents, and the lands in the declaration, are the same lands, am! that the lands are butted, bounded, and lie as described and located by the plaintiff on the plots.
    14. The jury find the lease, entry and ouster, in the declaration mentioned.
    15. The same as mentioned in the 10th in the preceding case before referred to.
    16. Same as the 11th ip the case before referred to.
    17. Same as the 12th in the case before referred to, meaning the deed to the lessors of the plaintiff.
    18. 19 and 20. The same as 13, 14 and 15, in the case before referred to.
    21. That neither Boreing, nor the lessors of the plaintiff, were, in the actual possession of the lands at any time within one year next preceding the deed of the 27th of July 1765, or had taken the rents or profits thereof, in any other manner than as aforesaid found.
    
      Johnson, Chase, Jenings and Alexander, for the Plaintiff.
    
      Hall, Goldsborough, (Attorney-General,) and Paca, for the Defendant.
    Judgment was entered upon the special verdict for the plaintiff. The. damages and costs were released.