Thurman v. Samuels

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Lassing —

Affirming.

L. B. Samuels and others instituted an action in the Nelson Circuit Court against Jasper Thurman and C. Q. Shepherd in. which they sought to recover damages of the latter for a trespass committed by cutting and' removing a certain lot of timber from a tract of land which plaintiffs alleged they owned. The defendants filed separate answers, but as .the action as to Shepherd was dismissed, only the defense set up by Thurman need be noticed.

He alleged that he was the owner of the land, admitted the cutting of timber, but denied that he had cut as…