Pitts v. Looby

Appellee brought this suit against appellant before a justice of the peace for alleged injury to her real estate by cutting down and removing trees standing thereon. On appeal she obtained judgment upon a verdict for $33.20, which the court refused to set aside.

Appellant admitted the cutting and removing of the trees as charged, but denied that appellee had such possession of the locus as would entitle her to maintain this action. The parties respectively owned what they supposed to be adjoining tracts, which were parcels of a larger tract including also other land formerly belonging to…