Warren v. Putnam

The plaintiffs brought their action to recover damages against the defendants for wrongfully cutting down and carrying away a large quantity of pine trees standing upon the land of the plaintiffs, and manufacturing the same into 'lumber at their mill situated in this state, and the plaintiffs claimed as damages the value of said lumber at the rate of $12 per thousand feet. The defendants by their answer admit the wrongful cutting and carrying away said pine trees and timber, and the manufacture of the same into lumber by them, but they contradict the allegations of the complaint as to…