4: The real plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own and cannot rely on the weakness of the defendant's, 4 Burr. 2489 ; LEost, 246; 2,Serg. & R. Penn. 65 ; 3 id. 288; 6 .Vt., 631 ; 4 Halst. N. J. 149 ; 2 Ov. Tenn. 185; 3 Humphr. Tenn. 614 ; 2 Harr. & J. Md. 112 ;, 1 Md. 44 ; 1 Blackf, Ind. 341 ; Walk. Miss. 119 ; 19 Miss. 249 ; 6 Ired. No. C. 159 ; 1 Cal. 295 ; 27 Ala. N. s. 586, and must show an injury which amounts in law to an ouster or dispossession, 1 Vt. 244; 5 Munf, Va. 346 ; 4 N. Y. 61;, 15 Penn. St. 483 ; an entry under a contract which the defendant has not ful filled being equivalent. 5 Wend, N. Y. 24 ;, 4 Binn. Pa. 77 ; 7 Serg. & R. Penn. 297 ; 7 J. J. Marsh. Ky. 318 ; 3 Bi Monr. Ky. 173 ; 3 Green, N. J. 371 ; 16 Ohio, 485; 14 Ill. 91.
It may be maintained by one joint tenant or tenants in common, against another who has dispossessed him. 2 Ohio, 110 ; 7 Cranch, 456 ; 3 Conn. 191 ; 2 Dev. & B. No. C. 97 ; 17 Miss. 111 ; 1 Spenc. N. J. 394; 4 N. Y. 61; 24Mo. 541. Co-tenants need not j oin against a mere disseisor,, Day, Conn. 207 ;, 3 Ilackf. Ind. 82 ; 6 B. Mons, Ky. 457 ; 10 Ired. No. C. 146; 12 id. 369 ; but even tenants in common may, 4 Cranch, 165 ; 4 Bibb, Ky.241 ; 11 Ired. No. C. 211 ; not in Missouri.
The plea, of not guilty raises the general issue. 3 Penn. St. 365 ; 13 id. 433 ; 1 Hempst.
C. C. 624 ; 29 Ala., N. s. 542.
' The judgment is that the plaintiff recover lass term and damages, Pet. C. C. 452 ; 18 Vt. 600 ; 12 Barb. N. Y. 481; 1,6 How. 275, or damages merely where the term expires during suit. 18 Johns. N. Y. 295.
5. Where the fictitious form is abolished, however, the possession of the land generally is, recovered, and the recovery may be of part of what the demandant claims. 1 N. Chipm, Vt. 41; 6 Ohio, 391; 1 Harr. & MIL Md. 158 2 Barb. N. Y. 330 ; 1 Ind. 242 ; 10 Ired. No. C, 237 ; 9 B. Monr. Ky. 240; 14 id, 60 ; 26 Mo. 291 ; 4 Sneed, Tenn. 566.
The damages are, regularly, nominalmerely; and in such case an action of 'trespass for mesne profits lies to recover the actual da mages. 3 Johns. N. Y. 481; 3 Harr. & J.
Md. 84.; 13 Ired. No. C. 439 ; 25 MIss. 445.
See TRESPASS FOR MESNE PROFITS.
In some states, however, lull damages may be assessed by the jury in the original action. Pet. C. C. 452 •, 18 Vt. 600 ; 12 Barb. N. Y. 481. See 19 N. Y. 488.
Consult Adams, Archbold,, Cole, Gilbert, and Remington, on Ejectment; Chitty, on Pleading; Stephen's Commentaries, Share wood's Blackstone's Commentaries, Kent's Commentaries, Greenleaf, and Phillipps, on Evidence; the statutes of the various states, and the English Common, Law Procedure Act (1852, 170-220).