Hungerford v. Redford
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Marathon Countj. Replevin, for logs cut and removed by defendants from plaintiffs unoccupied land. Tbe plaintiff attempted to prove title to tbe land through several conveyances, but did not trace it back-to any original source of title, nor show possession at any time in himself or any of bis grantors.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Marathon Countj. Replevin, for logs cut and removed by defendants from plaintiffs unoccupied land. Tbe plaintiff attempted to prove title to tbe land through several conveyances, but did not trace it back-to any original source of title, nor show possession at any time in himself or any of bis grantors. He also gave proof that be bad notified tbe defendants of bis rights and forbidden their cutting any timber on tbe land, about the time they commenced cutting; and that be bad deposited with tbe clerk of tbe board of supervisors a sufficient amount to redeem…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
Action to recover tbe possession of a quantity of pine logs, alleged to have been cut by tbe defendants on a certain tract of land belonging to tbe plaintiff, and by them removed therefrom. Tbe complaint is in tbe usual form. The answer is a general denial, and an averment that tbe land upon which tbe logs were cut, and from which they were removed, belongs to tbe defendants.
Tbe plaintiff recovered judgment in tbe circuit court, .from which tbe defendants have appealed.
I. It appears by tbe evidence that tbe land from which tbe logs were taken was unoccupied, and it was therefore necessary…
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