Wells v. Johnston
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, William H. Johnston and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of. the clerk of the county of Lewis on the 17th day of January, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Lewis Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J. :
This is an action of conversion to recover the value of a quantity of pulp wood removed from a tract of 600 acres of land in Forest-port, Oneida comity. Plaintiff cut the wood, but was forbidden to remove the same by the assistant chief fish and game protector and forester, who thereupon sold it to parties who removed it, and subsequently sold and delivered it to the defendants at Port Leyden,about eleven miles distant. The principal question presented for our consideration is as to whether the lands from which the timber was cut were owned by plaintiff or by the People of the…
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