Sorrel v. Carlin

The defendants are charged by plaintiff with having felled upon his land four hundred and thirty-seven cypress trees, and removed them without liis permission ; that defendants have by their gross violation of his rights, in cutting and removing this timber, caused him damages to the amount of five thousand dollars. He *529caused the timber to be sequestered, and prays to be decreed the owner of it, and for judgment in solido against the defendants for five thousand dollars, as damages for their illegal and wrongful acts. The answer is a general denial, and the defendants set up a reconventional…