Wyant v. Central Telephone Co.

The plaintiff commenced this action before a justice of the peace by summons, requiring defendant to answer a plea of trespass on the case. The declaration was trespass, for breaking and entering plaintiff’s close, and cutting and trimming trees growing in the close and in the highway adjacent thereto. The case was tried at circuit, on appeal, before the court, who filed written findings of fact and law. The record does not show whether or not a plea was filed. The finding shows that the defendant’s servants, when constructing its telephone line along the highway, trimmed out some branches of…