Henderson v. Stewart

Townsend, Judge.

1. Count 1 of this three-count petition, seeking damages for the tortious acts of the defendants in preventing the plaintiff from cutting timber on land alleged to be rightly in his possession by virtue of a timber lease, sets out that the plaintiff has thereby received certain special damages; count 2 alleges facts for the purpose of showing the plaintiff has been generally damaged; and count 3 alleges that the trespass was wilful and malicious, entitling the plaintiff to punitive damages. The single prayer, following the third count, seeks the recovery of actual, general and…