Floyd v. Richmond

July 20, 1946, appellees brought this action against appellant to recover alleged compensatory and punitive damages for cutting down a number of cedar trees on their land.

They alleged in their complaint that appellant went on land which they owned and cut down and destroyed twenty cedar trees without permission or authority and that appellant knew that the .land and trees were the property of appellees. They further alleged “that prior to the cutting of the said cedar trees the property was exceptionally suitable and desirable for building sites, but the cutting and destruction of said trees…