Roberts v. Davis Bros. Lumber Co.

MILLS, Judge.

Hutchinson Bros., Inc., the owners of the southeast quarter of section 20, township 17 North, range 2 West, in Jackson parish, La., on the 30th day of November, 1923, sold all the merchantable timber thereon to the Davis Bros. Lumber Company for a consideration of $750, the purchaser being allowed five years in which to cut and remove the timber, with the right of extension for an additional three years upon the payment of $60 per year. This right of extension was exercised by the purchaser, but it did not remove the timber before the expiration of the contract, as extended, on…