Henry v. Southern Fire & Casualty Company

Complainants, Willie Henry and Lee Sain, appeal from the action of the Chancellor below in withdrawing the issues of fact from the jury upon the completion of the evidence and rendering a decree in favor of the defendant below, Southern Fire and Casualty Company.

Complainants, residents of Hardeman County, Tennessee, are engaged in the timber business. Their operation includes buying standing timber, cutting the trees, hauling the logs to their sawmill, sawing the logs into lumber and selling the lumber.

The complainants have been in the timber business for the past eighteen years and they…