Perkins v. Stockwell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for cutting and carrying away pine wood and timber. Writ dated January 17, 1880. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiffs, to this court, on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts, the material parts of which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
One provision in the deed of the plaintiffs of March 2, 1871, by which they conveyed a tract of woodland to the defendant, was as follows: “ Except reserving all the pine trees or pine timber thereon standing and to stand and grow thereon for the term of ten years from October 80, A. d. 1867, and longer by paying said Stockwell ten dollars per year after the expiration of the ten years aforesaid, and said Stockwell is to pay all taxes assessed on said land and pine trees while said trees stand thereon, and not to injure said pines in getting off other timber on said premises.”
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