Case Name: CRANE AND WIFE v. --
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1791-04
Citations: 1 N.J.L. 64
Docket Number: 
Parties: CRANE AND WIFE v. --.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 64–64

Head Matter:
CRANE AND WIFE v. --.
Debt is the proper action on the timber act.
Certiorari to Justice Banks.
This was an action of trespass, for cutting trees, and the justice awarded judgment of £3 per tree, on the timber act.

Opinion:
Per Cur.
Reverse the judgment.
Note. — Debt is the proper action for the penalty ; damages only can he recovered in trespass.
Cited in Sayres v. Inhab. of Springfield, 3 Hal. 207.