United States v. Crawford

This cause is on appeal from the trial court’s ruling in favor of Appellees in Appellant’s timber conversion action. The issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in entering judgment in favor of Defendants/Appellees in Appellant’s suit for conversion of timber where the uncontroverted facts are that (1) Appellant held a mortgage on standing timber located on Appellees’ land; (2) the mortgage was in default; and (3) Appellees had the trees subject to the mortgage cut and removed from the land.

On these facts, the trial court’s ruling that Appellant did not prove conversion because it…