Baxter v. Lyttle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “The language of our statute is clear and unambiguous. It precludes treble damages if the timber has been previously purchased. It does not require that the timber be purchased and severed from the real estate; it does not require that the timber be purchased and severed and removed from the real estate and it does not say that the protection against treble damages is valid only as against the person from whom the timber was purchased. If the legislature had intended that the treble damage provision be so extended the statute would contain language to that effect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Baxter v. Lyttle

2. “A person who cuts or causes to be cut any timber which he has not previously purchased shall, in lieu of the normal penalties of this chapter, pay the owner of the cut or appropriated timber three (8) times the stumpage value of the timber.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baxter v. Lyttle