Jones v. Bard

C. M. Jones brought this action, pursuant to RCW 64.12.030 (Rem. Rev. Stat., § 939), to recover treble damages for the unauthorized removal of timber from his premises.

Jones is the owner of the easterly twenty-nine acres of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 19, township 23 north, range 3, east W. M., on Vashon Island, in King county. The forty-acre tract adjoining on the east is owned by Otto Jacobson. Defendant S. C. Bard had both of these tracts and other adjacent lands cruised for the purpose of offering to buy the standing timber. His cruise of Jacobson’s property…