Dugan v. Hunt

I. Where a petition before a justice claimed $100, “ for damages and trespasses committed by defendant upon plaintiff’s lands” (describing them), alleging possession of the same, and that defendant, on, etc., “ broke and entered said premises by force, etc., and did then and there cut down and carry away from and off said premises one hundred trees, of the value of $100,” — Held, that it was not erroneous, upon the trial in the circuit court, to allow a witness to testify as to the damage done to the realty by the defendant’s trespasses. In other-words, plaintiff was not confined to the value…