Case ID: nc_43/html/0060-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Nash J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THERESA WALLING & AL. vs. ANTHONY BURROUGHS & ALS.
    In an account between tenants m common of land, used for getting timber, the value of the timber, while growing, is to be taken as the. rule of valuation. See the case at law decided at this term, Bennett «*. Thompson, 13 Ire. 141.
    Cause removed from the Court of Equity of Martin County, at the Fall Term, 1851.
    The case is stated in the opinion of the Court.
    
      Rodman and Donnell, for the Plaintiffs.
    
      Biggs and Moore, for the defendants.
   Nash J.

The plaintiffs and defendants are tenants1 in common of a tract of Swamp .land-: and the defendants,who are in possession, have cut down and carried to market a large quantity of timber growing on it. The bill is filed for an account. By a decree of the Court made by consent of the parties, reference was had to the master to state the account. A report was made to Spring Term 1851, of the Court of Equity for Martin County, to which each party excepted. It is unnecessary to consider any of the exceptions, but the first made by the defendant, as that disposes of the case as it is now before us. That exception is : “ That the defendants are charged with the value of the timber and some of tta05¡sa^5saS^]d, deducting only the actual expenses of^t^^ffif^sáfife^^parket, and not allowing the defendantajany thing for theijf risk and attention to the business: wlsyfeW 8$E@$3ídWs insist, that the proper charge agaipst them would be ¶ fair rent of the timber at the stump.” \TÍisISJi^tí8iJisJillowed; andas it goes to the principle orSith8^|pori»4Jie,<cause is referred back to the master, to take th£"'ac,count. The principle upon which such accounts are to be taken is stated, and the authorities cited, in the case of Bennett v. Thompson, decided at this Term, as a trespasser — we do not deem it necessary to do more than to refer to that case. The principle is that the account is to be taken of the value of the timber while growing, as a rent for the timber — this case being between tenants in common.

Feu Curiam. Ordered accordingly.