Fuller v. Dauphin

This was an action of trespass, by Dauphin against Fuller, for cutting timber, resulting in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $100 damages. The land upon which the timber is alleged to have been cut, is described in the declaration as “the island in Plum river slough,” being part of the southwest quarter of section 10, and a part of the north-west quarter of section 15, township 24 north, range 3, east of the fourth principal meridian. The pleas were, not guilty, and a plea of liberum tenementum.

The chief question in this case seems to be one of boundary, merely. The locus in quo…