Williams v. Township of Lynd

TODD, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order directing a verdict for defendant Township of Lynd with respect to part of plaintiff’s action for damages resulting from an alleged unauthorized entry and removal of trees from two adjacent tracts of land.

In October of 1978, the Lynd Township Board retained Louis Taveirne to clear brush along a township road. Taveirne was told by Arnold Buesing, the Board Chairman, that the road to be cleared was a 4-rod road (66 feet wide). Taveirne understood by this instruction that he was to clear the roadway 33 feet on either side of the cen-terline. In fact,…