Smith v. Champagne

This action is brought to recover the highest market price, of $6 per thousand feet, for cutting and removing 600,000 feet of pine timber and logs from a tract of land then belonging to the state and since purchased by the plaintiff. The defendants are charged with having committed such trespasses since January 1,1880. The defendant Champagne admits, in his answer, that he cut and removed from said land 400,000 feet of pine logs in the winter of 1877 and 1878, and denies that he has done any such cutting within the period of six years before the commencement of this action, and denies the…