Hubbard v. Bell

This was a bill in chancery, in the Union circuit court, exhibited by James Bell against Harlow B. Hubbard, for an injunction, to restrain the defendant from creating a nuisance by felling trees into Big creek.

The case, as presented by the pleadings, is a novel one, and the claim of the defendant in error, which was sanctioned by the circuit court, is of a character so extraordinary as to challenge the most careful investigation.

The facts are briefly these: The complainant in the bill, the defendant in error here, is the owner of certain lots or blocks of ground in the town of Ullin, in…