Parker v. Turner

This is a suit brought by the appellant, Parker Parker, to recover damages for the wrongful cutting of timber on a forty-acre tract situated on a mountain in Yell county. By his pleadings and proof the plaintiff charged that one of the defendants, J. R. Turner, having no authority to sell Parker’s timber, wrongfully executed a deed purporting to convey this timber to another defendant, C. J. Robinson. Robinson went upon the land, cut the timber, and sold it to the other defendants, a firm known as Nebo Lumber Company.

All the defendants interposed pleas of res judicata, asserting that Parker…