Hire v. Pinkerton

Appellee brought this action in four paragraphs in the lower court for damages against appellant for trespass upon appellee’s real estate alleging that the appellant committed injury by negligently and wrongfully entering thereupon and causing to be cut and sawed into logs approximately three hundred (300) growing trees and prayed for Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars damages. The fourth paragraph alleged that appellant’s entry was made under a claim of having purchased the growing timber from Truman Yoder who had no right to sell the timber in question.

Appellant answered, admitting ownership…