Turner v. Watkins

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

Action of claim and delivery of personal property, in Magistrate’s Court. The property sought to be recovered was certain pieces of timber, particularly described as to dimensions in the affidavit, but not otherwise, valued at $99.

It appears that in July, 1920, the plaintiff sold and conveyed to the defendant a certain tract of land, the contract of which contained this clause:

“I [the plaintiff] am to have enough timber off the land to build a four-room house with a hall like the house on Mr. Barnett’s place where Brown lived.*’

The…