Bizzell v. Booker
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Sevier County. Hon. SheltoN Watson, Circuit Judge. This case is **as strong against the defendants as any of those cited below: 1st. Because the parties were doing an illegal act in encamping upon and making a camp and raising a fire on government land, (as is presumable,) or, at all events, upon other than their own lands : or, were doing a voluntary, unnecessary act, liable to result in injury to plaintiff or others, which inlaw would…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Sevier County. Hon. SheltoN Watson, Circuit Judge. This case is **as strong against the defendants as any of those cited below: 1st. Because the parties were doing an illegal act in encamping upon and making a camp and raising a fire on government land, (as is presumable,) or, at all events, upon other than their own lands : or, were doing a voluntary, unnecessary act, liable to result in injury to plaintiff or others, which inlaw would place them in the same position as if the act were illegal; and, at all events, imposed on them the duty of exercising…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice English
This was an action of trespass on the case, brought by 'William II. Bizzell, in the Sevier Circuit Court, against Paul 17. Booker, John W. Jones, James II. Walker, jr., and James E. Johnson.
There are eleven counts in the declaration, charging substantially, with variations of form, that on the 9th of November, 1851, the plaintiff was the owner of thirteen bales of cotton, which were deposited under a shed, at Shaw’s Landing, on Bed Biver, in Se-vier county, waiting for a rise in the river, so that they could be shipped to New Orleans for sale. That the defendants knowing' that the cotton was…
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