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6 N.H. 57

Crosby v. Moore

Superior Court of New Hampshire

Decided September 15, 1832

Superior Court of New Hampshire · decided 1832-09-15

Trespass, quart clausum fregit. The cause was tried here, at February terai, 1832, and a verdict returned in favor of the plaintiff, with $3,42 damages. The first count was for breaking and entering, a small close, the title to which was in question on the trial. The second count was for breaking and entering a larger close, which included the close mentioned in the first count.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently June 1896

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Decided 1832-09-15

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By the court.

¶1The statute enacts, that “ in all actions of trespass quare clausum fregit, when the title of real estate ⅛ not in question, if the damages, found by the jury, do not amount to $13,33, the court may allow only such sum, in costs, as they shall think proper, not exceeding the sum found by the jury.” We are of opinion that the title to real estate was not, in this case, so in question as to entitle the plaintiff to full costs. So far as such title was in controversy, between the parties, the defendant feas prevailed $ and if the suit had been brought only for the Injury the plaintiff had sustained in reality, it is clear he would not have been .entitled to full costs. We think the circumstance, that he joined in the action a groundless claim, which involved the title to land, does not alter the case.

¶2posts limited.

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