Bronson v. St. Croix Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action brought in the district court for Washington county, and tried by McCluer, J., (a jury being waived,) who ordered judgment for plaintiffs for the return of the logs in dispute or their value with interest, amounting to $22,601.63. The defendant and intervenor ■appeal from the judgment.
1Opinion of the CourtDiceinson, J.
This action was commenced in July, 1883, to recover from the St. Croix Lumber Company a quantity of logs — or the value of the same — which that corporation had cut in the winter of .1882-83 from lands in the state of Wisconsin, and which it had brought, down the tributaries of the river St. Croix into Lake St. «Croix. The title of the logs was in issue, and that depended upon the title to the lands from which they had been cut. The title to *349the'lands is conceded to have been in the. plaintiffs, unless it had been divested by tax proceedings through which title is claimed to have' become…
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