Hallack v. Stockdale

Reed, O.

This was an action of trespass for cutting timber, in which treble damage was claimed, under section 2408, page 738, General Statutes. Appellees, plaintiffs below, were the owners of about one thousand four hundred and twenty acres of land in Park county, covered more or less with timber, and alleged in their complaint that the defendants, without leave of plaintiffs, and without lawful authority, entered upon the.-land, cut and carried away two thousand five hundred timber ■ trees of the value of $3,000,— praying judgment for $9,000.

The answer was specific denial of all the…