Alden v. Mayfield

Plaintiff sued to recover damages for injury to her freehold and for an injunction to restrain threatened future damages. The specific charge of damages was that the defendant “between midnight of the 28th day of May and daylight of the 28th day of May, wrongfully and unlawfully cut down, tore out and removed the heavy plate glass and stone front of a brick building belonging to plaintiff and replaced the same with a cheap temporary structure with great damage to said property and the said plaintiff in the sum of $1,000.” Defendant admitted the taking down and removal of the plate glass and…