J. H. Leavenworth & Son, Inc. v. Hunter

Appellant was complainant in the court below, and filed an attachment in the chancery court for actual and statutory damages for the willful trespass of appellee in cutting and removing from lands of appellant certain cottonwood and willow trees sold by appellee to the United States government for revetment work on the Mississippi river. The lands from which this timber was cut is situated in the northwest quarter of section 27, township' 27, range 6, which was purchased by the appellant from the O. H. Johnston Hunting Club. This cutting was done between the 1st of September and the 8th day…