Newlon v. Reitz

Johnson, President:

This is an action of trespass on the case brought in 1887 in the Circuit Court of Ritchie county by James B. Newlon against Lewis P. Reitz,Frederick W. Reitz, John W. Martin, Thomas G. Martin, George N. Martin, and Thomas E. Davis, to recover for certain timber cut on and taken from the land of the plaintiff.

There are two counts in the declaration. The first alleges in substance that on the — day-, 1884, plaintiff was the owner in fee and possessed of a certain tract of about 400 acres of land in said county, describing it, and he being so seized and possessed, the said…