Case Name: Norwood vs. Shipley
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1802-05
Citations: 1 H. & J. 295
Docket Number: 
Parties: Norwood vs. Shipley.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the General Court and Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland, form 1800 ... [to 1826]
Volume: 1
Pages: 295–296

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
MAY TERM, 1802.
Norwood vs. Shipley.
The plaintiff to recover in an action of trespass must show title on that he was in the actual possession of the place where &c.when, &c.
Trespass (¿. C. F. Plots made and returned.

Opinion:
The Court in this cause determined that the plaintiff must show title to the land on which he charges the trespass to be committed, or he must show that i . , ' . "',. , . , lie was in the actual possession oí the place where the trespass was committed, at the time when it was committed.
Ridgely, Mason and Shaaff, for Plaintiff.
Martin, (Attorney General,) and W. Dorsey, for Defendant.