Ross v. Phillips

This case grows out of the same controversy as that just considered in the case of Pratt D. Phillips and others v. Jacob E. Taylor and Hannah A. Ross. It is an appeal by Mrs. Ross from a verdict and judgment against her by direction of the court, in her suit against Phillips & Brother for trespass in going upon the land in which she claims a half interest and cutting the timber from it under a: contract with Jacob E. Taylor alone. The evidence bearing on the whole controversy is to some extent divided between the records in the two cases; and there is in this record evidence that Taylor has…