United States v. Ordway

This action is brought by the United States to recover damages for cutting and removing timber from the public lands, and converting the same to the use of the defendants. Substantially, it is alleged in the complaint that on March 1,1883, and on divers other days between then and the commencement of this action, the defendants unlawfully entered on the S. W. \ of section 11, in township 2 N., of range 5 E. of the Wallamet meridian, the same being public land of the.United States, situate in the territory of Washington, and did unlawfully cut and remove therefrom 6,000,000 feet of timber, and…