Ries v. Dodson

THOMSON, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a resident of Iowa, sues defendant in trespass for cutting and carrying away plaintiff’s timber, claiming also further damages to other timber. The defendant, in his answer, denies the trespass, and avers that the cutting and taking of the timber was under a right obtained from the plaintiff in a written bill of sale. Defendant’s motion for a compulsory nonsuit, and his later motion for binding instructions, were both overruled, the ease submitted to the jury, resulting in a verdict for the plaintiff. Prom the judgment entered on the verdict, this appeal…