Boyd v. Durrett

T. Frank Durrett, as complainant, filed a bill of complaint in the chancery court of Monroe County against W. W. Boyd, as defendant, to establish the true boundary lines between lands owned by the complainant and adjoining lands owned by the defendant, all of which were fully described in the bill of complaint. The complainant also alleged in his bill that the defendant had gone on the lands of the complainant and had cut valuable timber, and the complainant asked for damages for the alleged trespass and also for the statutory penalty for the wrongful cutting of the timber.

The chancellor,…