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Q. What was the fact with reference to the case that went to the 

 3ourt of Appeals ? 



A. We tried that at that term of the court, and got a judgment 

 gainst him, and he appealed it up to the Court of Appeals. 



Q. Did you collect th6 amount ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. How much ? 



A. $1,250 or $1,310 I guess it amounted to. 



Q (Mr. Anibal). That is, the damages besides the costs ? 



A. Yes, sir; then I had a strong case right there where' a man 

 tamed Miller had been the agent for the Comptroller on another lot, 

 >nd Turner still said they couldn't stop him; he had cut the timber; 

 hose men went before the grand jury and indicted him for grand 

 irceny in stealing timber. 



Q. Had there been a case, ^nown as the Mitchell case, that had 

 ;one through the courts just before, in which the State was defeated? 



A. Yes, sir; that was brought in 1884, at Johnstown; that was a 

 ery celebrated case. 



Q. It was upon the question of the title of the State ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Was an action brought by direction of the forest commission 

 hortly afterward in that locality ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. The McCool case ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. What has become of it? 



A. There were two or three other defendants with him; they were 

 ointly on a lot and an action was brought against the whole of them 

 ,nd they were beaten. 



Q. Did you get judgment ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Collect it? 



A. No, sir. 



Q. Why not? 



A. You couldn't collect it except you put the men in jail; some 

 expectable citizens begged them off and they begged largely for 

 hemselves, and agreed that if the State wouldn't do anything they 

 vould .protect the forest as against others and would furnish 

 nformation. 



Q., State in a general way what the policy of the commission was 

 vith reference to trespassers, and how you treated them, and what 

 rou did with them ? 



