Sears v. Ackerman

GRAY, C.

This action was brought to recover damages for the destruction of certain timber claimed by plaintiff, and to enjoin the further destruction thereof. On a trial before the court without a jury, the defendant obtained a judgment. The plaintiff appeals from this judgment, and also from an order denying him A new trial. The evidence and findings show that plaintiff in 1883 was the owner of a tract of land consisting of seventy-six acres, at La Honda, in San Mateo County. In that year he conveyed for the nominal consideration of one dollar about one acre of said land by deed to “Joseph S.…