Deerfield Lumber Co. v. Lyman
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery, Windham County. Heard at Chambers, August 20, 1913, on the pleadings and findings of fact by the chancellor, Fish, Chancellor. Decree for the orators. The defendant appealed. The bill has a prayer for general relief. The deed of the New England Hardwood Company is from the Deerfield Lumber Company. The cutting complained of was done by defendant in August, 1912. The opinion sufficiently states the other facts in the ease.
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Appeal in Chancery, Windham County. Heard at Chambers, August 20, 1913, on the pleadings and findings of fact by the chancellor, Fish, Chancellor. Decree for the orators. The defendant appealed. The bill has a prayer for general relief. The deed of the New England Hardwood Company is from the Deerfield Lumber Company. The cutting complained of was done by defendant in August, 1912. The opinion sufficiently states the other facts in the ease. Defendant by abandoning the premises for so many years after he first cut and removed all the accessible timber lost his right to reenter and cut the…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
This suit grows out of a controversy over certain timber on a tract of land in Dover known as the “Wait” lot. The Deerfield Lumber Co. owns the land and The New England Hardwood Co. claims title to certain of the timber growing thereon. The bill charges that the defendant, without right or title in the premises, had entered upon the land and had cut and removed therefrom a large quantity of hard and soft wood timber, the property of the orators, and purposes to cut and remove all the hard and soft -wood timber standing upon the premises. It is further alleged that the timber was small and not…
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