Brewer v. Fletcher

Ed. F. McFaddiN, Justice.

S. L. Fletcher sued Oris ft. Case in the chancery court, seeking damages for trespass and unlawful cutting of timber. From a decree allowing a recovery, there is this appeal.

Mrs. W. Gr. Wightman of Calais, Maine, was the owner of 160 acres of land in Stone county, Arkansas. By timber deed dated March, 1941, she sold to Fletcher “all the merchantable pine and oak timber” on said land. Mrs. Wightman suffered the 1940 taxes to remain unpaid; and on November 10, 1941, the lands were sold at the collector’s delinquent tax sale (under % 13849, et seq., Pope’s Digest), and…