Humphrey v. Cooper
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 47, Oct. Term, 1897, by plaintiff, from judgment of C, P. Jefferson County, May Term, 1894, No. 320, on verdict for defendant. Trespass for an illegal cutting of timber. Before Harry White, P. J., of the 40th judicial district, specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 47, Oct. Term, 1897, by plaintiff, from judgment of C, P. Jefferson County, May Term, 1894, No. 320, on verdict for defendant. Trespass for an illegal cutting of timber. Before Harry White, P. J., of the 40th judicial district, specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court below charged in part as follows : The plaintiffs claim the timber to have been cut by the defendant on warrant No. 2983, while the defendant denies this and claims the land was not on 2983, but was on 2981, which he, the defendant, owned. We will now pause right here to go…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Dean,
This is an action of trespass by plaintiffs against defendant for cutting timber on a tract of about 50 acres of land in Jefferson county. Both parties claim title to the land on which the timber was cut; it was unimproved, and in tlie actual occupancy of neither up to the date of the alleged trespass.
On the application of William Willink and others known as the Holland Land Go. warrants for the survey of nine tracts were issued to them in 1792. These warrants were placed in the hands of William P. Brady, deputy surveyor, who on November 7 and 10, 1794, located the…
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