Royal v. . Dodd
Supreme Court of North Carolina
These were four several actions against tbe same defendants consolidated without objection, so far as appears, and tried before Allen, J., and a jury, at August Term, 1918, of SajípsoN.
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These were four several actions against tbe same defendants consolidated without objection, so far as appears, and tried before Allen, J., and a jury, at August Term, 1918, of SajípsoN. The actions were by several adjoining proprietors of land to recover damages caused to their lands by fire wrongfully started, as they allege, by defendants or their agents in operating a steam sawmill on the tract of one of the plaintiffs, J. 0. Jones, and under a contract at the time between L. N. Dodd, owner and operator of the mill, and defendant J. D. Pope, the owner of the timber. On denial of liability…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
On the hearing it was made to appear that the defendants P. F. Pope and W. H. Parrish, a partnership trading as Pope & Parrish, owned the timber, with the right to cut and remove same, on the lands of J. C. Jones, one of plaintiffs, sometimes designated as the Smith, or Jim Smith, place, and in November, 1915, they sold and conveyed the said timber and all their rights and appurtenances in reference thereto to their eodefendant J. D. Pope, who continued to own same to the time of trial.
The deed, executed in November, 1915, and duly proved and filed with the register during the trial week, was…
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