Mitchell v. . Heckstall

Tbe plaintiffs brought suit to recover damages of the defendant for wrongfully cutting and removing timber from land to which they claimed title and for an injunction perpetually to enjoin the trespass. The defendant denied the title of the plaintiffs and alleged that on 30 January, 1896, their ancestor, John Mitchell, had conveyed to him the property in controversy which was described in the deed as follows: “The Hoggard Mill, which embraces both the sawmill and grist mill, the acre of land on which is the mill site, the mill pond and all the privileges of'ponding water and all lands and…