Newport Timber Corp. v. Floyd

Gregory, Justice.

Appellants (defendants below) appeal from the grant of an interlocutory injunction and denial of their motion to dismiss. Bobbie Jean Floyd, appellee, filed a verified equitable complaint against appellants Newport Timber Corporation (hereinafter Newport) and Billy Thomas in the Superior Court of Pierce County on May 12, 1980. The complaint alleged that Ms. Floyd had sold to Newport all merchantable pine timber on a tract of land in Pierce County which she owned, by written contract dated November 16, 1977, under the terms of which Newport was given two years from the…