Cook v. Rockhouse Realty Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Appeal from Letcher Circuit Court. Appeal — Action for Trespass — Dismissal.—In an action for trespass in cutting trees from land alleged to be tbe property of tbe plaintiff, where the defendant by his answer denies the plaintiff’s title to the land, and sets up no claim to it himself, no appeal lies from a judgment against the defendant for less than $200.00.
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT BY
CHIEF JUSTICE HOBSON-
Dismissing Appeal.
The Rockhouse Realty Company brought this suit against Jacob Cook and John C. Brown charging in substance that it was the owner and entitled to the immediate possession of certain linn, poplar and walnut logs which the defendants had recently cut upon a certain tract of land which it alleged it owned. The defendants by their answer denied that the plaintiff was the owner or entitled to the possession of the logs,- or that it was the owner of the tract of land. But they did not deny the cutting of the timber from the land or set up…
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