Dean v. Thompson

HARVEY, Justice.

Fred Thompson‘sued John Dean of Up-shur County in trespass to try title and, alternatively, for actual damages in the sum of $3,000 and $1,000 exemplary damages, for the value of timber alleged to have been converted by the defendant, or for damages in the sum of $2,000 for the alleged cutting by defendant of 87 pine trees on the land of plaintiff. The suit was tried to the court without a jury, and from the judgment entered in favor of plaintiff for the title and possession of the land involved and for the sum of $90 representing the value of trees removed from plaintiff’s…