Pratt v. Ano
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Charles W. Pratt, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Oneida on the 29tli day of January, 1895, upon the verdict of a jury rendered after a trial at the Oneida Circuit, with notice of an intention to bring up for review upon such appeal an order denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made ■upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Ward, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages occasioned by the negligence of the defendant in injuring the spruce trees and timber of the plaintiff, in cutting hemlock timber, peeling bark on, and removing the same from, lots 3, 5, 9, and the east half of lot 10, Woodhull tract, in the towns of Wihnurt, Herkimer county, and Forresport, Oneida county, in this State, in the years 1892 and 1893.
The premises upon which the timber in controversy was located consisted of about 2,200 acres of woodland,' and on the 27th of February, 1889, one Dr. Joseph Leavitt, who resided at Pittsfield,…
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