Watson v. Stout Lumber Company

Appellant brought this suit to cancel the original timber deed made- by him to the Stout Lumber Company as a cloud upon his title, and to declare a forfeiture of the rights of the grantee to the timber conveyed, and to confirm and quiet his title as against the lumber company, and from the decree dismissing his complaint for want of equity this appeal is prosecuted.

It appears from the testimony that appellant sold the timber on 160 acres of land in Calhoun County to the lumber company for $2,200 cash, and conyeyed same by his deed executed-on the 13th day of January, 1923, which recites: ‘ ‘…