Ripchick v. Pearsons

This is an action in tort for trespass for wrongful cutting of timber and seeking treble damages under V. S. 47, §8403, resulting in a directed verdict for the defendant Pearsons and a general verdict against the other two defendants for actual damages and a special verdict answering in the negative a question asking if these two defendants had satisfied the jurors by a fair balance of the evidence that, in cutting such trees as they find were cut on the plaintiff’s land, the defendants acted through mistake or had good reason to believe the trees so cut were trees owned by the International…