Pearl River County v. Wyatt Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi; Edwin R. Holmes, Judge. Separate suits by Pearl River County, Miss., against the Wyatt Dumber Company and against the Edward Hines Dumber Company. Decrees for defendants (Robertson v. Hines, 267 Eed. 605). and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge.
Each of these suits was brought in the chancery court of Pearl River county, Miss., by Pearl River county, alleging itself to be a political subdivision and corporation of the state of Mississippi, against the respective defendants above named, to construe certain timber deeds made by the board of supervisors of complainant, conveying to said defendants, respectively, the merchantable pine timber standing or growing on section 16 of two townships in said county, with the right as to one of said sections at any time within 25 years after the date of said deed to enter upon…
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