United States v. J. C. Martin Lumber Company, J. C. Martin Lumber Company v. United States

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

This appeal and the cross-appeal are taken from a judgment entered in a suit involving the cutting of timber in De Soto National Forest, Wayne County, Mississippi, under two timber sale agreements between the United States, as the owner and seller of the timber, on the one hand, and one J. C. Martin, an individual, doing business under the name of J. C. Martin Lumber Co., as the purchaser.

The judgment, upon a finding that timber of the fair value of $11,000 had been wrongfully received by J. C. Martin Lumber Company, but that it was entitled to a credit of $10,172.04 on…