Nyzio v. Vaillancourt

WERNICK, Justice.

On January 9, 1975 plaintiffs Stanley Nyzio, Barbara E. Nyzio, Joshua M. Clark and Geraldine R. Clark commenced a civil action in the Superior Court (Aroostook County) against defendant Herbert Vail-lancourt. The complaint alleged that plaintiffs owned a 48 acre parcel of land situated in Limestone and Caswell, Maine, and that during February and March 1974 defendant unlawfully entered their land and cut down trees thereon worth, as timber, $8,410.87. Further alleging that defendant had acted “knowingly” or “willfully”, plaintiffs claimed double the amount of the actual…