United States v. Chaplin

This action is brought by the United States to recover damages for cutting and removing timber from the public lauds. It is alleged in the complaint that on December 18, 1880, and on divers days between then and December 1, 1885, the defendant Daniel Chaplin unlawfully entered on sundry sections and subdivisions of sections of the public lands, being parts of townships 1, 2, and 8 N., of range 86 E., of townships 1 N. and 1 S., of range 85 E., of township 2 S., of range 86 E.,and of township 2 S., of range 37 E., and situate in the counties of Umatilla and Union, Oregon, and cut therefrom…