Case ID: nh_77/html/0603-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Parsons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Rockingham,
    May 4, 1915.
    David Urch v. Maria Rand.
    Trespass quare dausum. Trial by the court. Transferred from the October term, 1913, of the superior court by Branch, J., on the plaintiff’s exception to an order of nonsuit.
    
      Thomas H. Simes and William E. Marvin, for the plaintiff.
    
      Kelley & Hatch and Page, Bartlett & Mitchell, for the defendant.
   Parsons, C. J.

The plaintiff’s evidence tends to prove his possession of the tract of flats upon which the defendant trespassed. Possession is sufficient evidence of the right of possession in issue in trespass quare clausum, in the absence of proof of title in the defendant. The facts, if established, that the premises may be entirely covered by tidewater and that the plaintiff does not own the adjoining upland, do not conclusively controvert the plaintiff’s possession or establish the defendant’s title.

Exception sustained.

All concurred.