Whitney v. Huntington
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Hennepin county, to recover for the alleged conversion by defendant of logs and timber wrongfully cut and removed from land alleged to belong to the plaintiff. The answer denied plaintiff’s ownership of the land or of the logs and timber.
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Plaintiff brought this action in the district court for Hennepin county, to recover for the alleged conversion by defendant of logs and timber wrongfully cut and removed from land alleged to belong to the plaintiff. The answer denied plaintiff’s ownership of the land or of the logs and timber. At the trial, before Lochren, J., and a jury, special findings were taken upon issues as to the amount of the logs and timber cut and the value thereof, both at the time they were cut upon the land and at the time they were converted; and, by agreement, the other issues were tried by the court. Upon the…
1Opinion of the Court
Dickinson, J.1
This is an action to recover the value of a large quantity of logs, which were cut by Grjffin and Beard upon vacant and unimproved lands in Morrison county, to which land this plaintiff asserts title. The defendant’s appeal presents the question whether the plaintiff, Whitney, or Griffin, (from whom the defendant, by purchase, claims title to the logs,) owned the land.
The facts respecting the title may, for the purposes of this decision, be thus briefly stated: Clark, the owner of the land, executed a deed of conveyance, absolute in form, to Baldwin, in 1869, which *199was recorded…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Nesbitt v. St. Paul Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1875
- Whitney v. HuntingtonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1886
- Hinman v. HeyderstadtSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
3Cited by18 opinions
- Larson v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. Inc.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1948
- White v. YawkeySupreme Court of Alabama · 1895
- Watkins v. Siler Logging Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1941
- Durant Min. Co. v. Percy Consol. Min. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1899
- King v. MerrimanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1887
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