Buza v. Columbia Lumber Company

AREND, Justice.

This appeal is brought to review the decision in the court below .concerning the ownership of six bundles of spruce logs designated as Carlson Raft No. 7 and valued at about $8,000.

In a complaint, filed on July 20, 1962, the plaintiff-appellee, Columbia Lumber Company, hereinafter referred to as Columbia, accused the defendants-appellants of converting the logs, willfully trespassing upon Columbia’s property and interfering with its mill operations. For relief Columbia prayed for the return of the logs and for compensatory and punitive damages totaling $31,000. 1

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