Foley v. Bush

The plaintiff sues to recover the sum of $1,500, as the value of 1,550 cords of wood, more or less, alleged to have been cut on his land by the defendants, Allen & Robinson, in the summer and fall of 1854 and 1855, for the use of their sugar plantation.

The prescription of one year is interposed as a bar to the action.

The testimony of one of the witnesses proves that there were only 50 or 100 cords of the wood cut, but not hauled away, near the end of the year 1855. “The wood cut in 1855, says the witness, was partly standing and partly cut down before.” It is impossible from the evidence, to…