Gray Lumber Co. v. Gaskin
Supreme Court of Georgia
Injunction. Before Judge Parker. Coffee superior court. October 17, 1904. Jobn A. Gaskin filed a petition to enjoin the Gray Lumber Company from cutting timber on certain lots of land. He claimed title to a part of the land under a deed from F. H. Gaskin, dated February 16, 1903, conveying the fee.
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Injunction. Before Judge Parker. Coffee superior court. October 17, 1904. Jobn A. Gaskin filed a petition to enjoin the Gray Lumber Company from cutting timber on certain lots of land. He claimed title to a part of the land under a deed from F. H. Gaskin, dated February 16, 1903, conveying the fee. The Gray Lumber Company claimed the right to cut the timber under a lease from F. H. Gaskin to Timmons, McWhite & Company, dated November 15, 1895, which had been duly transferred to it. This lease conveyed, for a term of ten years, “all and'singular the timber suitable for turpentine and sawmill…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
1. We will first dispose of the motion to dismiss the writ of error sued out by the plaintiff.- While his bill of exceptions was styled by him a cross-bill, the assignment of error therein contained is one which is appropriate only to a main bill of exceptions, and therefore the writ of error should have been sued out within twenty days after the rendition of the decision complained of. Sumner v. Sumner, 121 Ga. 1 (2). It does not affirmatively appear from the bill of exceptions that it was ten-, dered within twenty days after the decision complained of. The bill of exceptions recites that it…
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