Lawson v. Martin Timber Company

On Rehearing

SIMON, Justice.

The plaintiff, Hugh Wimberly Lawson, brought suit against the defendant, Martin *481Timber Company, to recover the value of timber removed by the defendant from the plaintiff’s land. The plaintiff alleged in his petition that the defendant was guilty of moral bad faith in the cutting and removing of the timber from his land, and, accordingly, was liable to him for the converted value of the saw logs without allowances and deductions for the cost and expense of manufacturing the same; and, in the alternative, if the Court should find that the defendant was merely in…