Rock v. Belmar Contracting Co.

The plaintiff is the owner of lands adjoining the new Granville-Hartford State highway. The defendant built the road. The complaint alleges that the defendant trespassed upon *243plaintiff’s lands, opened a stone quarry thereon and wrongfully operated the quarry and took therefrom and converted a large quantity of rock. By stipulation in writing the defendant admits the trespass and conversion. The issue tried and submitted is the amount of damages.

The defendant used in the road about 24,000 cubic yards, loose measure, of stone, most of which came from the quarry on the plaintiff’s property and…