Van Horn v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to District Court for Natrona County. HoN. J OHN W. Blare, Judge. T. C. Van Horn was informed against, under Section 1G, cb. 40, L. 1888, for unlawfully cutting down, leveling, demolishing, destroying, injuring and removing a certain building erected upon a certain oil placer mining claim, the property of W. Tennant and Boney Earnest. He was convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of three hundred dollars.
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Error to District Court for Natrona County. HoN. J OHN W. Blare, Judge. T. C. Van Horn was informed against, under Section 1G, cb. 40, L. 1888, for unlawfully cutting down, leveling, demolishing, destroying, injuring and removing a certain building erected upon a certain oil placer mining claim, the property of W. Tennant and Boney Earnest. He was convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of three hundred dollars. A motion for new trial, incorporated in the bill of exceptions, was filed. Several of the grounds assigned for new trial were the giving of certain instructions which were set out in…
1Opinion of the Court
GeoesbeoK, Chiee Justice.
The plaintiff in error, T. C. "Van Horn, was convicted of the offense of unlawfully removing a certain building from an oil placer mining claim situate in the county of Natrona, and was fined in the sum of three hundred dollars and judgment was rendered against him for the costs of the prosecution. The offense is defined by chapter 40, Sess. Laws 1888, section 10, which reads as follows: “Any person who shall unlawfully cut down, break down, level, demolish, destroy, injure, remove, or carry away any sign, notice, post, mark, monument, or fence upon or around any…
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