W. K. Syson Timber Co. v. Dickens
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before IIon. Samuel B. Browne. Action by Charles Dickens against W. K. Syson Timber Co., for trespass in breaking a boom and taking certain logs therefrom. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
This is an action of trespass by the plaintiff, against the defendant for a trespass “upon a certain boom in Chickasawbogue creek, in Mobile county, alleged to have been in the possession of the plaintiff at *473the time of the trespass, and for cutting and breaking the fastenings of said boom, and for breaking or cutting the fastenings of certain logs in said boom, thereby causing said logs to' escape from said boom, and thereby damaging plaintiff on, to-wit, the 11th day of April, 1903,” the averment as to damage being, that “the plaintiff was put to great cost and expense in ascertaining the…
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