Court Opinion

ID: 3373018
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 18:14:43.262706+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:47:10.137207
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Mr. Layton asked for a writ of estrepement founded on an affidavit *Page 325 
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.
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.Rep., 49.)