Cushman v. Oliver

Citations

• 81 Ill. 444

Syllabus

<p>Cutting timber—penalty for, when, may he recovered. Where a purchaser of swamp land from the county fails to comply with the contract of purchase, and the county declares a forfeiture of the contract, and sells the land to another, such last purchaser is entitled to recover the penalty provided by the statute to prevent trespass by cutting timber, in an action of debt against the first purchaser, for timber wilfully and knowingly cut or caused to be cut, by him, on the land, after the delivery of the deed by the county to such second purchaser.</p>