Pitts v. Looby

This suit was brought by defendant in error, against plaintiff in error, before a justice of the peace, for damages claimed to have been sustained by defendant in error from the cutting. and carrying away by plaintiff in error of certain trees before then standing and growing upon the land of defendant in error. The fact of the cutting and carrying away of the trees by plaintiff in error was admitted, but he denied that before they were cut they were standing and growing upon land whereof defendant in error was in possession, and alleged, upon the contrary, that they were standing and growing…