State v. Horr

1 Reported in 203 N.W. 979. The statute governing the sale of state timber in force in 1912 provided that all sales of such timber should be made at public auction at the State Capitol except as otherwise expressly provided, G.S. 1913, § 5272; and that the timber so sold should be scaled by the surveyor general of the district in which it was located, G.S. 1913, §§ 5282 and 5283. The statute further provided that the timber on tracts, "where the estimated quantity of log timber thereon" did not exceed 100,000 feet, might be sold at auction at the county seat of the county in which it was…