Case Name: Poindexter vs. Cherry
Court: Tennessee Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1833-03
Citations: 4 Yer. 305
Docket Number: 
Parties: Poindexter vs. Cherry.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 305–305

Head Matter:
Poindexter vs. Cherry.
After a recovery in ejectment, trespass for the mesne profits, and not assumpsit, is the proper action.
Combs, for plaintiff in error.
Campbell, for defendant.

Opinion:
Peck, J.
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action on the case, in assumpsit, for mesne profits.
The plaintiff introduced on the trial the record of a recovery in ejectment, between the same parties, for the land, and on which the profits had issued; and thereupon offered proofs of the value of such profits during the pen-dency of the action of ejectment. The court rejected the evidence.
It was proper to reject this evidence. Trespass for mesne profits was the proper action; and the form of action must not be departed from.
We do not perceive any error in the record.
Judgment affirmed.