United States v. Williams

These actions are brought by the United States against the defendants to recover the value of certain timber unlawfully cut, and removed from the public lands to a certain saw-mill, in Springfield, Lane county, Oregon, and there sawed into boards and converted to the use of the defendants, to the damage of the plaintiff in the first ease in the sum of $9,000, and in the second one of $6,000. In No. 932 it is alleged in the complaint that between April 1 and July 13, 1883, there was cut and removed by the defendants therein, from what would be, if surveyed, the N. E. J of section 22, in…