Case Name: HENRY BURBAGE vs. DAZY et al.
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1851
Citations: 5 Harr. 324
Docket Number: 
Parties: HENRY BURBAGE vs. DAZY et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 324–325

Head Matter:
HENRY BURBAGE vs. DAZY et al.
The writ of estrepement cannot be issued in an action of trespass quare clausum fregit.
Trespass quare clausum fregit.
Mr. Layton asked for a writ of estrepement founded on an affida vit that defendants were about to cut timber on his land and trees to pay taxes assessed for the laying out and cutting a ditch, under an order of court. The defendants were ditch commissioners.

Opinion:
The Court
refused to award the writ. It is a writ grantable only in real actions, and in the action of ejectment to which it was extended by the act of 1829. (Digest. 167; Higgins' lessee vs. Phillips, 3 Harr. Hep., 49.)