Brewster v. Buckholts
Brewster v. Buckholts
Opinion of the Court
This matter is too clear to require illustration. The supposed injury done to the freehold of the ancestress, could only be redressed by a personal action, and the remedy, by the common law, was at end an at the death of either the disseizor ordisseizee. It was held in the case of Blakeney vs. Blakeney (6 Porter, 109,) that the action of tresspass qu-are clausum fregit, does not survive, so as to enable the
This is certainly true in this case, but it is only one of many to which the maxim of actio personalis moritur cum persona, applies.
Let the judgment be reversed and the case remanded.
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