State v. Dexter

Respondent Avery Dexter and Hazel Dexter, his wife, had since September, 1945, held title in fee simple to three hundred twenty acres of marketable second-growth timber in Pend Oreille county. Beginning in November, 1945, and continuing into 1946, Dexter cut approximately one hundred fifty thousand board feet, log measure, of fir, larch, and white pine on that property; from November, 1945, until a restraining order issued in this action in •October, 1947, he cut hemlock suitable for pulpwood.

In 1947, the state forester became aware that the respondent was cutting and removing timber, and…