Dendinger Inc. in Liquidation v. Thompson & Thompson Forest Products

TATE, Judge.

Plaintiff landowner recovered damages for timber cut and removed from its land by defendant’s logging crew. Plaintiff was awarded as damages the gross' amount of $1149.22 received by defendant for plaintiff's timber, sawed and delivered by defendant.

Defendant admits that the timber cut was situated on plaintiff’s land, but urges that the trespass on plaintiff’s land was in good faith; therefore the recovery should be limited to the stumpage value of the timber cut — that is, the value of the timber in standing trees before it is cut and removed.

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