H. D. Williams Cooperage Co. v. Clark
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Cleburne Circuit Court; George W. Reed, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellee brought suit against appellant for treble damages for the unlawful cutting and removing of certain timber from his lands.
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Appeal from Cleburne Circuit Court; George W. Reed, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellee brought suit against appellant for treble damages for the unlawful cutting and removing of certain timber from his lands. It was alleged that it unlawfully and wilfully entered upon his lands in June, 1911, and cut and removed 28,456 feet of white oak timber therefrom, of the value of $300, and damaged and caused a waste of other timber, growing thereon, of the value of $200, and prayed judgment for treble damages. The appellant admitted appellee’s ownership of the lands, and that its employees entered…
1Opinion of the Court
Kirby, J.,
(after stating the facts). Appellant contends that the verdict is excessive, and that the court erred in giving instruction No. 2 over its objection and in refusing to give the three instructions requested by it.
Said instruction numbered 2 relates to the statute requiring persons desiroous of cutting and removing timber from any land in the State for the purpose of making staves or to be sawed into lumber, when the boundaries of.the land are not already ascertained and known, to have such lands surveyed and the metes and bounds marked and plainly established before cutting the…
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