Smith v. Briggs

The complaint of the respondent, plaintiff, substantially alleges that he was the owner of certain lands, and lawfully entitled to the possession of the same, when the defendant A. G. Briggs, by himself, his agents, servants, and employees, wrongfully entered upon the same, and cut thereupon and therefrom 200,000 feet of pine, and 100,000 feet of oak, basswood, and ash timber, and wrongfully removed the same from said premises, and converted the same to his own use, and sold the same to the defendant Henry Sherry, who, well knowing that said timber was so wrongfully taken by the said A. G.…