Litchfield v. . Bond
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered May 22,1905, affirming a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon the report of a referee.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered May 22,1905, affirming a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon the report of a referee. The plaintiff is the owner of some nine thousand acres of land, situated in the southwesterly corner of Franklin county, in this state, of which he has made a park; inclosed by a steel wire fence, stocked with large and small game and, more or. less, laid out in carriage drives. The defendants are the state engineer of this state and his assistants and this action was brought to restrain…
1Opinion of the CourtWerner, J.
The plaintiff is the owner of about 9,000 acres of forest land in the Adirondack mountains. This tract he inclosed and improved as a park and game preserve, which was brought within the protection of the law by the posting of proper notices. In 1902 the defendants entered upon these premises and denuded of its growth of forest trees a strip of about miles in length and from 3 to 8 feet wide, except for a distance of 1,350 feet where the cutting was from 25 to 35 feet in width. Upon a complaint which alleged these facts and contained averments of further threatened devastation of plaintiff’s…
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