Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Davis

The Houston Oil Company of Texas brought this suit against Henry Davis to recover certain pine and hardwood logs alleged to have been cut and removed by defendant from a tract of land owned by plaintiff and stacked on the bank of the Sabine river, and, by an allegation that the defendant, for the purpose of preventing identification of said logs, had wrongfully and willfully mixed and intermingled the same with logs belonging to him, sought to recover, not only the logs that had been taken from its land, but also those with which they had been so intermingled. It also, under an allegation…