CHAPTER 658

An Act to amend and reenact §§ 8-906 and 8-908 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to civil liability of persons cutting and taking timber of

another.
[H 380]
Approved April 4, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 8-906 and 8-908 of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

_ _§ 8-906. If any person, firm or corporation, in the course of cutting
timber on any timber lands in the State, encroach and cut timber on any
adjoining timber land, except under bona fide claim of right, the owner
thereof shall, in addition to all other remedies afforded by law, have the
benefit of a right to, and a summary remedy for recovery of, damages
*triple the amount of the value of the timber so cut to be determined and
recovered as hereinafter provided.

8- * Triple the amount of the damages thus determined,
together with necessary expenses incurred in making the estimate, in-
cluding a per diem allowance at the rate of twenty dollars a day for an
eight hour day * to the estimators, shall be paid by the trespasser within
thirty days after a statement of the estimate shall have been rendered.