Scotch Plywood Co. of Mississippi v. Gardner

BOWLING, Justice,

for the Court:

This appeal from the Chancery Court of Newton County involves a sale and purchase of timber. The appeal questions evolve around the securing of a timber deed and the purchase of timber without securing deeds from all the owners. As usual a consideration of the appeal requires a brief discussion of the facts. These are largely undisputed, except for the amount of timber and its value. In relating the facts it usually is well to begin at the beginning.

One Clifton Gardner in 1942 purchased 100 acres of land approximately seven miles north of Decatur in Newton…