Sharp v. Learned

In the summer and fall of 1937 Learned cut and removed a quantity of timber from a part of the area known as, Diamond Island, or Diamond Island Towhead, located some sixteen miles south to south-west of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Sharp and Strieker contend that they were the owners of the timber and the land from which it was cut. They claim only through Louisiana title sources and that the particular land from which the timber was cut was a part of the accretions to Section 7, 8 and 9, Township 15 N, Range 14 E, Madison Parish, Louisiana. On the other hand, Learned claims that he was the owner…