Sandlin v. Hunter Co.

John R. Sandlin filed his bill in chancery against The Hunter Company, a corporation, in which the complainant alleged that he “is the owner of, and in possession of” certain described lands, “and has been in continuous possession of the above lands for the last past three years, that said lands are not fit for cultivation, that the said lands are chiefly and principally valuable for its timber standing and being and growing thereon.”

The complainant further alleged that the defendant, The Hunter Company, had entered upon these lands and had begun to cut and remove the timber therefrom and *516that…