Mullally v. Parks

Plaintiffs brought suit to quiet title to a strip of ground lying adjacent to the boundary line common to their land and that of the defendants, and to recover treble damages from defendants for willful trespass in cutting down a number of trees situated on the strip of ground in question. Defendants denied the claims of the plaintiffs and, by cross-complaint, sought to have title to the land in dispute quieted in them. After trial without a jury, the court entered a decree quieting title in the plaintiffs and awarding them damages as against one of the two sets of defendants in an amount…