HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
This appeal involves the liability for trespass of the Ivy H. Smith Company, Inc., the appellant, a contractor which under written contract undertook to prepare a right of way and erect a high tension line for an electrical cooperative, and, in the course of its work, entered on the land of the appellees, and cleared a swath 100 feet wide by 300 feet long of trees and shrubs.
The Southern Maryland Electric Co...
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