Chaput v. Demars

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

The plaintiff sued the defendants to recover treble damages caused by their cutting a hedge fence owned by the plaintiff. Judgment was rendered for the defendants, and the plaintiff appeals.

The plaintiff owned real property adjoining the city of Aurora, in Cloud county. On the side of Aurora next to the plaintiff’s land, there was a street 27^ feet wide. Along the side of the street, but on the plaintiff’s land for a distance of 855 feet there was a hedge growing fifteen to twenty feet high. The defendant, Mose Demars, was the treasurer of…