Burrow v. Brown

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

Richard Brown, appellee, brought this action in the Circuit Court of Monroe County against Burrow and Hadaway, appellants, seeking damages for defendants’ trespass upon plaintiff’s property and the cutting and destruction of trees on it. We affirm the jury verdict of $400 damages in favor of plaintiff.

Brown owned a 40-acre tract of land on the west side of Burrow’s 40 acres. Burrow employed Hadaway to do some timber-stand improvement work on his property. In the process of performing this job, Had-away trespassed upon 14.1 acres of Brown’s land, the plaintiff asserted,…