De Witz v. Saner-Whiteman Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Nacogdoches County; James I. Perkins, Judge. Trespass to try title by Robert De Witz and others against the Saner-Whiteman Lumber Company. From a judgment for plaintiffs for less than the relief demanded, they appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMcMEANS, J.
This is a suit of trespass to try title, brought by appellants against the appellee to recover an undivided one-fourth interest of 80 acres of land out of the Alfred Moore survey in Nacogdoches county. Under an allegation that appellee had cut and removed all the merchantable pine timber on the entire 80 acres, appellants sought to recover the value of one-fourth thereof after it had been manufactured, into lumber, and, in the alternative, sought a recovery of the value of one-fourth of the timber taken from the land, called in the parlance of the timber region “stumpage value.” A trial…
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