Webber v. McAvoy
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Action of trover to recover the value of certain logs converted by defendant. Defendant filed plea of general issue. At close of testimony, case was reported to Law Court to render such judgment as the law and evidence require. Judgment for plaintiff. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
On report. An action of trover for the recovery of damages for the conversion of certain logs cut from the locus described below in the years 1909 and 1910. “It is admitted that the alleged conversion was of lumber cut upon the sixty acres lying next easterly of a one hundred acre lot located in the Southwestern portion of Benedicta or the west corner of lot No. 1, according to Caleb Leavitt’s plan.”
As the right to the logs depends upon the possession of the locus from which they were cut, the plaintiffs, to maintain the action, must show that, at the time of the alleged conversion, they had…
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