United States v. Bagnell Timber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. Action by the United States against the Bagnell Timber Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH McPHERSON,
District Judge. This is an action by the government to recover of the defendant the value of timber taken from 160 acres of land within the state of Arkansas. There was an amended petition in two counts, one of which charges that defendant did willfully and unlawfully cut and take from the land certain timber, converting the same into railroad ties of the value of $313. The other count charges that one Somers unlawfully cut from the land certain timber and the same was converted into railroad ties, and that defendant appropriated the same to its own use and of the same value…
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2Cases cited16 opinions
- United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Wooden-Ware Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Hastings & Dakota Railroad v. WhitneySupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Bardon v. Northern Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Sturr v. BeckSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
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