Wood v. Weaver
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lunenburg county, in an action of trespass on the case. To a judgment reducing the amount of the verdict found by the jury, plaintiff assigns error. Statement of the Case and Facts by Sims, J. This is an action on the case, at law, by the plaintiffs in error (plaintiffs also in the court below) against the defendant in error (defendant also in the court below), hereinafter referred to as plaintiffs and defendants.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lunenburg county, in an action of trespass on the case. To a judgment reducing the amount of the verdict found by the jury, plaintiff assigns error. Statement of the Case and Facts by Sims, J. This is an action on the case, at law, by the plaintiffs in error (plaintiffs also in the court below) against the defendant in error (defendant also in the court below), hereinafter referred to as plaintiffs and defendants. The action is for damages to the plaintiffs caused by the cutting and conversion to his own use by defendant of certain trees belonging…
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after.making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The assignment of error in this case involves only one question, but that is the very important question, of—
What is the proper measure of damages in a case of wrongful cutting of timber?
This question, although adverted to in the case of Quigley Furniture Co. v. Rhea,, 114 Va. 271, 76 S. E. 330, was not therein involved or decided, and seems of first impression in this State. It is well settled, however, in England, in the federal courts of the United States and in many of our State courts.
*2581. Every trespass…
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