State v. Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Ramsey county to recover $16,-438.42 for illegal cutting of timber under a logging permit. Defendants demurred to the complaint. From an order, Kelly, J., overruling their demurrer, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
Dibell, C.
The complaint alleges that in 1903 the defendant Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co. received from the state a permit to cut “all the pine timber not less than eight inches in diameter twenty-four feet from the ground” on a school section in St. Louis county; that the defendants William O’Brien and F. W. Bonness were sureties upon the statutory bond of the company; and that in cutting the timber specified in the permit the company cut 792,782 feet from the same land, • of a size less than the specified size, for which treble damages in the sum of $16,438.42 are demanded. The cutting was…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- State v. Shevlin-Carpenter Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
- State v. SharpSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
- City of Crookston v. Board of County CommissionersSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
- State ex rel. Olson v. EricksonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1914
- State v. BuckmanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Northern States Power Co. v. FranklinSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1963
- State ex rel. Graff v. Probate CourtSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1915
- State v. HelmerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1926
- State v. Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1917
- Copeland v. Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.Court of Appeals of Minnesota · 1995
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