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CONVERSION — DAMAGES.
    [Lake Circuit Court,
    October Term, 1885.]
    Raubie, Frazier and Woodbury, JJ.
    
      Hulett et al. v. Fairbanks et al.
    Measure oe Damages eor Cutting Timber.
    The liability of a party who cuts timber from land decreed to belong to him, is, after reversal of decree, for the value of the timber on the land, at the time of severance.
    
      
      This case was affirmed by Supreme Court as Nettleton v. Hulett, without report Nov. 30, 1886.
    
   N. held the title to certain valuable pine timber lands by virtue of a decree of court. During his supposed ownership, he cut, removed and sold the timber growing on said lands. Afterward, the judgment which gave him his title, was reversed, and it was held, that his title was fraudulent and void, and he was ordered to execute a deed conveying the lands to H., the rightful owner. On an accounting to determine the amount due H., for the conversion of the timber growing on said lands: Held., that the measure of damages, is the value of the timber on the land at the time it was severed from the freehold, and converted by N.