McBrian v. Morrison

McBrian brought replevin in March, 1883, for a quantity of logs, and of staves made from logs wrong*352fully cut on his land by defendant in the month previous. The sheriff returned the writ without seizure of property. On the trial there was evidence tending to show that defendant had staves in possession which plaintiff and the sheriff could not identify as to their origin. It also appeared, that defendant offered to let the sheriff take a lot of logs which were at his mill, and which defendant said were from the-land in question, but plaintiff did not regard them, where they were, as worth…