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

GENERAL COURT, (E.S.)
    APRIL TERM, 1805.
    Gibson vs. Martin
    The possession of a nave of a tract of land, with title to the whole, is the possession of the whole, except against an adverse possession by actual enolo* svyre,
    Trespass q. e.f. upon a tract of land called Rattle Snake Point, lying in Talbot county.
    In this case it was proved that the plaintiff had title to the tract of land upon which the trespass complained of was committed, and had also possession thereof.
    The defendant claimed under a younger tract, which run in upon the plaintiff’s land, and upon which the trespass was committed, and that he had possession thereof for upwards of fifty years.
    
      J. Bayly, John Scott and Earle, for the Plaintiff.
    
      Martin, (Attorney General,) Hammond and Bullitt, for the defendant,
   Tí|e Court said, that the possession of the plaintiff of a part of the tract called Rattle Snake Point, with the title, was a good title and possession of the whole of the tract, unless the defendant proved actual possession by enclosure, of the tract which he claims, for upwards of twenty years.