United States v. Ball

This action is brought by the United States to recover damages for the conversion of timber alleged to have been cut from the public lauds in Yamhill county. It is alleged in the complaint that on January 1, 1881, and on divers days thereafter, and prior to February 1,1884, John W. Green unlawfully cut from the public lands designated in the surveys thereof as the 1ST. E. £ of the N. E. £, and the S. E. £ of the N. E. £, of section 30, township 2 S. of range 5 W. of the Wallamet meridian, 840,000 feet of growing timber, and made the same into saw-logs, which he removed to the defendants’…