Capital Electric Power Ass'n v. Hinson

This appeal is from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Warren County entered on the verdict of a jury in two suits brought by appellee against appellant for the recovery of damages, which suits were by agreement consolidated for trial.

The first suit was filed on August 25, 1954, seeking-damages for the cutting and destruction of 67 trees on the lands of the plaintiff, and was in four counts, one being for the statutory penalty, one being for a willful trespass and appropriation of private property, seeking actual and punitive damages, one being for the actual value of the timber, and one…