Smith v. Wells

This is a bill in equity to restrain the defendant from trespassing on the plaintiff’s premises and to recover damages already caused by such alleged trespass. After the fifing of the answer, the case was referred to a *153master “ to hear the parties and their evidence, and report his findings to the court together with such facts and questions of law as either party may request.”

In substance, the master found that the plaintiff is and has been for many years the owner of several tracts of land in Hawley and in Ashfield which are described in the plaintiff’s bill; that on May 28, 1918, by…