Wood v. Phillips

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in a suit instituted in the court below by one R. L. Phillips, as plaintiff, against Arthur A. Wood, a forest supervisor of the United States, as defendant. The bill of complaint alleges that plaintiff is the owner and entitled to the free and uninterrupted use of a certain tract of land; that defendant is exercising dominion and control over same, is claiming title thereto to be in the Department of Agriculture of the United States and, under threats of prosecution, is preventing plaintiff from removing timber therefrom or exercising…