Everett v. Gores

This was an action for the wrongful cutting of pine timber. It was tried, and the respondent recovered judgment for the stumpage value thereof, viz. $3 per 1,000 feet, with interest from the time of the cutting.. From this judgment the present respondent appealed to this court, and the case will be found reported in 89 Wis. 421. It was there held that, because the defendant had not filed an affidavit that the cutting was done by mistake, as provided by sec. 4269, S. & B. Ann. Stats., the judgment should have been for the highest market value of the manufactured product of the timber cut,…