Wallingford Rod Gun Club, Inc. v. Nearing

The complaint is in four counts claiming damages for the unlawful cutting of trees on plaintiff’s land, and for various claimed injuries resulting from trespass.

The issues center upon a dispute between the plaintiff and the named defendant over the ownership of a roughly rectangular piece of woodland lying between other lands admittedly owned by the contending parties. The defendant Rossi is sued because he concededly did, with the permission of the named defendant, the acts complained of. Since the decisive question is whether Rossi did the alleged acts on the plaintiff’s land or on the…