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SMITH v. SHIFLETT

No. 37371.

66 Wn.2d 462 (1965)

403 P.2d 364

CATHERINE SMITH et al., Respondents, v. EARL E. SHIFLETT et al., Appellants.

The Supreme Court of Washington, Department One.

June 17, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Witherspoon, Kelley, Davenport & Toole, by E. Glenn Harmon and Hancock & Kohls, by B.E. Kohls, for appellants.

Richard A. Perry, for respondents.

HILL, J.

This is another case of trespassing loggers cutting timber and seeking to avoid the statutory treble damages1 by urging that they did not know they were trespassing. It also involves the issue of the measure of damages to be paid by the mill which bought the timber from the loggers and thereby became responsible in conversion.

The purposes for which our treble damage statute was...

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