Erwin v. Lee Lumber Co.

This suit grows out of a trespass upon lands owned by the plaintiff, and it is for the value of timber cut and removed therefrom by defendant during the year 1910. The lands are described as the—

“east half (E. %) of northwest quarter (N. W. %) section seventeen (17), township six (6) north, range two (2) east, Grant parish, La.”

The petition alleges that the defendant, its officers, agents, and employees, entered upon plaintiff’s lands wrongfully, and, in legal and moral bad faith, built a tramroad diagonally across it, and cut and removed therefrom 600,000 feet of pine timber; that the net…