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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

NEW LONDON COUNTY,
    MARCH TERM, A. D. 1793.
    Abel v. Abel.
    A traverse of the plaintiff’s title not such a plea of title as will take the action from a justice.
    Action for a trespass committed upon land, brought before a justice, declaring that for more than four years before tbe doing of tbe facts complained of, be was seized and possessed of tbe land and place where, etc.
    Tbe defendant plead — Tbat for more than one year before said trespass was said to have been committed, be was actually and peaceably possessed of tbe land and place where said facts were done, and tbat tbe plaintiff ought to be barred ■without that, that tbe plaintiff for more than four years before the doing of the facts complained of was seized and possessed in manner and form as alleged in his declaration.
    Upon which said justice took a bond, and handed said cause over to the County Court, upon the idea that the title was to be tried, and from the County Court said cause was appealed to this court; and now the plaintiff moved that said cause be erased, as the defendant had set up no title in his plea that he relied upon, and had only averred a one year’s possession, as inducement to his traverse of the plaintiff’s title.
   Judgment — That the cause was not regularly before the court, and accordingly was erased from the docket. The statute evidently contemplates such a plea as will put the defendant’s. title directly in issue. This plea amounts tc no more than the general issue, that the defendant is not guilty.