Hassam v. J. E. Safford Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover for the conversion of logs. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1908, Orleans County, Hall, J., presiding.
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Trover for the conversion of logs. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1908, Orleans County, Hall, J., presiding. General verdict for the plaintiff for the value of the logs at the mill, with special verdicts fixing their value on the stump, and on the ground at the stump, and the special findings that the plaintiff had acquired “prescriptive title” to the disputed land, and that he had not satisfied the jury by a fair balance of evidence that defendant Safford had acted in bad faith in cutting or selling the logs in question. Judgment for plaintiff on the general…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This is an action of trover for the conversion of certain logs which it is alleged the defendant Salford cut on the plaintiff’s land and sold to the Salford Lumber Company, a corporation of which he was president.
1. The plaintiff was permitted to put in evidence a plan of the locality in which the timber was cut. The plan was admitted, not as independent evidence, but merely to aid the jury to a proper understanding and application of the testimony of the witnesses as to the location of the physical objects involved in the controversy. The defendant excepted on the sole ground that the plan…
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