Peterson v. Hamilton

This is a boundary line dispute, in equity, between coterminous owners. Appellee was the complainant and appellants the respondents and cross-complainants below. On trial date, complainant amended the bill, claiming $1,000 as damages against the respondent, Henry E. Peterson, for the cutting down or destruction of forty-eight pine trees or saplings on land not his own, wilfully and knowingly, without the consent of the complainant, who claimed to be the owner of the land.

Testimony was taken in open court and thereafter the final decree fixed the dividing line in accordance with the…