Bond v. Brown

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree holding that a lease of land, which granted the right to cut and remove the pine timber thereon, had not expired, and awarding, possession to the owner of the lease. On August 10, 1916, Pat O’Connor, the owner of 400 acres of land, conveyed by lease all the pine timber thereon to the Miller-Link Lumber Company, and granted to it and its assigns the right to cut and remove the timber for five .years. The lease contains the following clause, granting the right to an extension beyond the period of five years:

“It is further specially provided…