Hecht v. Harrison
Wyoming Supreme Court
Suit for damages for unlawfully moving cattle from a certain locality largely enclosed, and containing unappropriated public land. As the decision of the court was based upon the determination that the plaintiff in error would only be entitled to nominal damages upon the evidence in the case, the facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Suit for damages for unlawfully moving cattle from a certain locality largely enclosed, and containing unappropriated public land. As the decision of the court was based upon the determination that the plaintiff in error would only be entitled to nominal damages upon the evidence in the case, the facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. If the land was enclosed, the act of enclosure was wrongful, including large tracts of public land to the grasses upon which the plaintiff had the same right as defendant. (Act. of Gong., Eeb., 1885.) The conclusion reached in the case of H. S. v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Geoesbeck, Chief Justice.
The action was brought in the district court for Albany county by the plaintiff in error, who was plaintiff below, against Robert Marsh, Arthur Francis, Thomas Cooper, aud Frank 0. Harrison. Cooper and Marsh were sued as members of a co-partnership, but it appeared on trial that defendant. Marsh had disposed of his interest in the co-partnership, and it was dissolved before the commission, of the alleged trespass, and Cooper was not served with process and did not appear.
As Marsh did not participate in the act complained of in the petition, he was not joined as…
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