Chipman v. Hibberd

Citations

• 6 Cal. 162

Syllabus

<p>In an action for damages for cutting down growing trees, the measure of damages is not the value of the trees as firewood, but the injury done to the land by destroying them. This damage should be estimated by all the circumstances, and the purposes for which such trees were used or designed, and not according to the speculative or fancied ideas of the jury.</p>