Case Name: Harman vs. Whitchlow; vel Hammond vs. White
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1793
Citations: 1 Mart. 152
Docket Number: 
Parties: Harman vs. Whitchlow, vel Hammond vs. White.
Judges: Whitlock, J. concurred.
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 153–154

Head Matter:
Harman vs. Whitchlow, vel Hammond vs. White.
Trin. 2 Car.
TWO tenants in common, had common in law; Whitchlow, ploughed the land, Harman, one of the tenants in common, brought his action upon the case, and declared that thereby his cattle were in great danger of starving and perishing, and on non culp. it was found for the plaintiff.
Whistler. There ought to be no judgment, for this action does not lie for a tenant in common: and by the declaration, it appears that he had a companion who is not joined with him.
Dorrel, e contra.
Here it is alledged that there was a particular damage to the beasts of the plaintiff, in which he had a special property.
Whistler
cited 13 H. 7. 26. 35 H. 6. 36.

Opinion:
Doderidge, J.
If the tenant of the land, or a stranger, chases the cattle of a tenant in comnion, who has common there, he alone may have an action. But it is not so here; and the difference is grounded on this rule. Where the injury is equally great to one tenant in common as to the other; there they shall join in a personal action.