Butcher v. Burns

This is an action of trespass. The damage alleged is for the cutting of two white oak and one red oak tree on land described as—

“The land of the plaintiff situate in the townsnip of Scipio, in said county, being the north half of the west seventy acres of the northeast quarter of section number twelve, town five south, of range three west, the same extending to a line oh the east surveyed and established by George A. Mark, surveyor, on to wit, December- 1, A. D. 1870, as the east boundary line thereon, and containing thirty-five acres of land, more or less.”

*18The defendants, who were workmen in…