Dejarnett v. Haynes
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the circuit court of Noxubee county; Hon. A. B. Dawson, judge. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice FisheR
This was an action of debt, under the statute affixing a certain value to certain trees alleged to have been cut and earned away by the defendant below from the land of the plaintiff. The issue was nil debit, in short by consent.
On the trial the plaintiff below proved by a witness, that the slaves of the defendant cut down and carried away from the lands described in the declaration, seventy trees, not stating the kind of trees ; that the witness informed the defendant that he was cutting wood on the plaintiff’s land, when the defendant replied that he did not care if he was, that he was able…
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