Jordan v. Delaware & Atlantic Telegraph & Telephone Co.
Superior Court of Delaware
Summons Case (No. 119 September Term, 1908), brought to recover damages for cutting, and mutilating certain shade and fruit trees, growing on the land of the plaintiff, upon the side of a public highway and in front of the dwelling house of the plaintiff, but on the opposite side of the highway from the dwelling. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Writ of error sued out of the Supreme Court by defendant.
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Summons Case (No. 119 September Term, 1908), brought to recover damages for cutting, and mutilating certain shade and fruit trees, growing on the land of the plaintiff, upon the side of a public highway and in front of the dwelling house of the plaintiff, but on the opposite side of the highway from the dwelling. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Writ of error sued out of the Supreme Court by defendant. Counsel for the defendant was permitted, in cross examination of the plaintiff, to inquire, against objections, whether her husband, assisted by their son, was not, at the time of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Pennewill, C. J.,
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—The plaintiff in this case seeks to recover from the defendant damages alleged to have been caused by the unlawful cutting of about eight maple trees and one pear tree on her lands and premises, situated in Mill Creek Hundred in this county, on the fourteenth day of June, 1907. The plaintiff claims that the saidmaple trees which stood in front of her lawn were of much value for shading and ornamental purposes, and that the pear tree was valuable and profitable on account of the fruit it bore; that the defendant company, without legal…
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