Gilbert v. McDonald
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover treble damages amounting to $633.60 for trespass in cutting and removing timber from plaintiffs’ land. The case was tried before Dibell; J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiffs for $150. From a judgment entered pursuant to the verdict, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
October 26, 1901, Samüel V. Gilbert filed application in the land office at Duluth, as assignee of a soldier’s additional homestead certificate to the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 9, town 62 north, of range 1, Cook county, Minnesota. The following November 20 he executed a quitclaim deed of the premises to plaintiffs. Between December 1, 1902, and March 7, 1903, defendants committed a trespass upon the land by cutting and carrying away timber there*290from, which, according to the verdict rendered, was of the value of $Í50. March 16, 1903, the application was allowed by…
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