Woolsey v. Carmichael

(By special assignment pursuant to RSA 490:3). Plaintiff brought a petition to enjoin the trespassing of defendants’ cattle on his property and to enjoin defendants’ interference with his right to maintain a certain dam and pond. Plaintiff also sought damages caused by the trespass of the defendants’ cattle. The defendants in their answer disputed the boundary line in the vicinity of the dam and also counterclaimed for an abuse of criminal process.

A Master (Robert W. Pillsbury, Esq.) found that originally the tracts of land owned by plaintiff and defendants were in a single ownership by one…