Brown & Rockwell v. Willey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Bradford county. This was an action of trespass, qu. cl. fregit et de bonis asportatis, brought December 13th 1858, by William H. H. Brown and James L. Rockwell against Horace Willey, George Beardsley, and Charles R. Scouton, for cutting and taking away three hundred white pine trees, and one thousand saw-logs, of the value of $300. To a declaration in the usual form the defendants pleaded not guilty.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Bradford county. This was an action of trespass, qu. cl. fregit et de bonis asportatis, brought December 13th 1858, by William H. H. Brown and James L. Rockwell against Horace Willey, George Beardsley, and Charles R. Scouton, for cutting and taking away three hundred white pine trees, and one thousand saw-logs, of the value of $300. To a declaration in the usual form the defendants pleaded not guilty. The material facts of the case were these: — By a written agreement, dated 23d of July 1858, the Towanda Mineral Land Company sold to Charles Wells, and William H.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, March 22d 1862, by
Thompson, J.
As this case is presented, we are unable to perceive any error whatever in it. It was fully conceded, on the argument, that the “ ridge or brow of land, on the east side of Raven Hollow to the line dividing the Simon Hardy and the James Hardy tracts,” was, to the last-named point, to be the dividing line of the timber between the parties. All on the east of that boundary was to be Brown & Rockwell’s — all on the west, to belong to Wells, under whom the defendants claim. This was not the entire line between the parties, but…
2Cited by1 opinion
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