Nowlin Lumber Co. v. Wilson

Hooker, J..Complainant and the defendant own adjoining lots of timbered land, different parcels of the complainant’s land being separated by the land of the defendant. Previous to the time that the defendant acquired title to her property, the complainant desired to construct a logging railroad across the land now owned by the defendant, so that it might transport timber, which it proposed to cut upon one of its parcels, to its sawmill, which was* located upon the other tract. It therefore addressed the following letter to Mr. Spencer, who then owned the land now owned by the defendant:

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