Lumber Company v. . Cedar Company

The plaintiff brought the action to restrain the defendants from trespassing on the land described in the complaint by cutting and removing timber therefrom, some of the defendants having a large plant and being engaged extensively in the timber business. The Court granted an injunction to the hearing and the defendants appealed. The plaintiff claimed to be the owner of a large body of land in Dare County, which was granted to John Gray Blount, 7 September, 1795, and said to contain 100,000 acres, according to the quantity given in the grant, (413) but in fact a much larger acreage, that is,…