DeGoosh v. Baldwin & Russ
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass quare clausum. Pleas, the general issue and liberum tenementum. Plaintiff new assigned, and. defendants rejoined with a general denial and notice thereunder. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1910, Orange County, Hall, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendants excepted.
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Trespass quare clausum. Pleas, the general issue and liberum tenementum. Plaintiff new assigned, and. defendants rejoined with a general denial and notice thereunder. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1910, Orange County, Hall, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendants excepted. In this action the defendants are charged in trespass with breaking and entering the plaintiff’s close, and then and there taking and carrying away, of the property of the plaintiff, two hundred thousand feet of wood and lumber and fifty cords of hemlock bark and converting the same to…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
Although the gist of the action is the breaking, and entering the plaintiff's close, the real bone of contention, is the title to the lumber and bark lying and being thereon at the time the plaintiff became the owner of the land, October-22, 1908. In addition to the land, the plaintiff then acquired' all the right, title and interest in and to such lumber and bark as the Saxbys had. Before any of the standing timber was-cut the defendants took a conveyance from Bean of all his right and title therein with the appurtenances thereof. The ownership of the lumber and bark in question at the time…
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