Any person who enters upon the land or premises of another without written permission from the owner of the land or premises in order to cut, damage or carry away or cause to be cut, damaged or carried away, any timber, trees, logs, posts, fruit, nuts, growing plant or product of any growing plant, shall be liable to the owner in the amount of three times the value of the timber, trees, growing plants or products thereof, which shall be in addition to and notwithstanding any other penalties by law provided.
W. Va. Code § 61-3-48a
Cutting, damaging or carrying away without written permission, timber, trees, growing plants or the products thereof; treble damages provided
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 221 W. Va. 442 - American Canadian Expeditions, Ltd. v. Gauley River Corp. (2007)
Most recently applied in Penix v. Delong (October 2015)
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