Powell v. Cheshire
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equity. Practice in Superior Court. Jurisdiction. Con-stitutional Law. Before Judge Hillyer. Eulton Superior Court. April Term, 1882. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
This bill in equity was filed to stay waste by writ of in-j unction. The complainant alleges title to, and possession of, a tract o'f land in DeKalb county, used by him as a farm, and upon which he was preparing to erect a dwelling-house as a residence; that some seventeen acres of said land was wooded, and was the only woodland on the tract of ninety-two acres; that defendant, without title or claim of right, was cutting down the timber on those seventeen acres; that he had destroyed many trees, and was still engaged in cutting down and destroying others; and that,…
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