Elliott v. Hutchinson
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal, by Nathan Hutchinson, from a judgment of the circuit court of Wood county, rendered on the 10th day of May, 1871, in a suit then pending in said court, between Aqnilla Elliott and Harriet,'his wife, plaintiffs, and said Hutchinson, defendant. The opinion of the Coiu't contains a sufficient statement of the case. The Hon. George Loomis, judge of said circuit court, at the date of said, judgment, presided at the trial below.
1Opinion of the Court
Hayaiond, President :
This is an action of trespass on the case brought by Aqnilla Elliott and Han-iet, his wife, against Nathan Hutchinson, for cutting and removing from the land in the declaration mentioned (which, it is alleged, was devised to the said Harriet for life) large quantities of timber, the property of plaintiffs, and carrying the same away, to-wit: one thousand oak trees, of the value of §1,000; one thousand poplar trees, of the value of §1,000-one thousand pine trees, of the value of §1,000 ; one *454thousand locust trees, of the value of $1,000 ; one thou-sugar trees, of the value…
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