Moran v. Choate

Opinion up the Court by

Judge Richardson

Reversing.

This is an action of trespass to real estate, charged to have been committed by the cutting and removing standing timber, of the alleged value of $554.40.

Reed Moran, in his petition against ,S. E. Choate and the William Allen Lumber Company, averred he was the owner, and in the absolute possession of 22% acres of land in the form of a triangle, lying between the old Kentucky-Tennessee state line, surveyed in the year 1819, and the new line between Kentucky-Tennessee, surveyed in the year 1858-59. And Choate and the William Allen Lumber Company…