Guild v. Prentis
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for treble damages under P. S. 5842. Plea, tbe general issue. Trial by jury at tbe June Term, 1909, Windsor County, Hall, J., presiding. At tbe close of all tbe evidence tbe defendants moved for a directed verdict, for that the plaintiffs, being only lessees, could not maintain this action. Motion overruled, to which the defendants excepted.
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Trespass for treble damages under P. S. 5842. Plea, tbe general issue. Trial by jury at tbe June Term, 1909, Windsor County, Hall, J., presiding. At tbe close of all tbe evidence tbe defendants moved for a directed verdict, for that the plaintiffs, being only lessees, could not maintain this action. Motion overruled, to which the defendants excepted. The jury rendered a general verdict for the plaintiffs for $166, actual damages and answered in the negative the following special question: “Have the defendants satisfied you by a fair balance of evidence that in cutting such trees as you find…
1Opinion of the CourtHaselton, J.
This action was brought under P. S. 5842 to recover treble damages for the cutting of trees on land held by the plaintiffs under a lease. The land in question was a small tract on the banks of the Connecticut in the town of Springfield of which the plaintiffs had a ten years’ lease and on which they had erected a summer cottage. At the time of the cutting of the trees, hereinafter referred to, the plaintiffs’ lease had about eight years to run. The owner of the land in fee simple at the time of the lease, after giving the same, conveyed to the defendants land, which included that in question,…
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