Burt v. Busch

Plaintiff brought suit in trover in the circuit court for the county of Saginaw to recover from the defendant the value of 63,000 feet of pine saw-logs, of the stumpage value of six dollars per thousand feet board measure, which had been removed by the defendant from a strip of land containing about four acres. Each party to this controversy claims to own this strip of land. The controversy grows out of a difference between two government surveys, one of which was made in 1839, and the other in 1877. On the trial in the court below the court advised the jury, in substance, that the title to…