Longyear v. Gregory
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Dickinson; Stone, J. Trespass by John. M. Longyear and others against Frank Gregory and Frederick J. Schliemann, copartners doing business under the firm name of the Amberg Cedar Company, to recover treble damages for cutting and removing timber from plaintiffs’ land. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
In November, 1893, the Amberg Cedar Company, through the agency of one Whitney, purchased of the firm of Mann Bros, five 40’s of timber *278lands in Dickinson county. One of these 40’s was the S. E. ¿ of the N. E. i of section 8, town 42 north, of range 30 west. Whitney, as agent of the Mann Bros., took defendant Schliemann over the lands before the purchase, and pointed out the S. W. £ of the N. E. instead of the S. E. i of the N. E. i, of the above section, as a part of the lands. The said S. W. ¶ of the N. E. \ is the property of the plaintiffs. Defendants .located their lumber camps on this…
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