Carter v. Ladee Logging Co.

Action by R. Thomas Carter and wife and another against LaDee Logging Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs appeal.

REVERSED AND REMANDED. REHEARING DENIED. Action by plaintiffs for damages caused by forest fires. On the plea of defendant that the judgment in the federal court case, hereinafter referred to, was in effect an adjudication of the issues herein involved, a trial was had on that question alone, in advance of the trial on the merits of the case, and upon the preliminary trial a judgment was entered in favor of the defendant.

In 1926 the Union Lumber Company, Ltd., a…