Augusta Cooperage Co. v. Bloch

This action was instituted by the appellees against the appellant in the circuit court to recover damages. The appellees alleged that they were the owners of certain tracts of land in sections 22 and 34 in township 10 north, range 3 west, in Jackson County, Arkansas, and that appellant wilfully trespassed upon these lands by cutting and removing therefrom elm timber to the amount of 290,000 feet, which appellant converted into 870,000 staves of the value of $17,400, for which appellees prayed judgment.

The appellant answered denying all the material allegations of the complaint and set up that…