Havard v. Luttrell

HARDY, Judge.

This is an action in trespass in which plaintiff claims damages resulting from the alleged tortious cutting of timber by defendant. After trial the district judge rendered judgment in favor of plaintiff, fixing the measure of damages on the stumpage value of the timber cut and removed, from which judgment plaintiff has appealed.

Plaintiff was'the owner of an undivided one-half interest in a 160-acre tract of land in Catahoula Parish, the other undivided one-half interest being owned by her mother, Mrs. Susie Radford Coleman. Sometime in or about the early part of July, 1952, Mrs.…