Ponds v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that 13 V.S.A. § 3606 only applies to trespassers
• holding that 13 V.S.A. § 3606 only applies to trespassers
• holding, under pre-2010 version of 13 V.S.A. § 3606, that statute only authorized recovery of damages from person who cut trees and not adjoining landowner who hired logger, because landowner was “only secondarily vicariously involved”
• “The sale of cutting rights only to timber on [landowner’s] property does not operate to make her a principal trespasser on another’s land because the ‘independent contractor’ operator cut over the line.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).