Freeze v. Hinkle

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

A jury failed to award treble damages against appellee under Ark. Stats. §§ 50-105 and 50-107 for cutting and removing timber (alleged to be wilfully done) from land belonging to appellant. It is the contention of appellant here that the cause should be reversed because the trial court gave two instructions which were erroneous.

There is hardly any dispute over the essential facts. Appellant, T. E. Freeze, and appellee, Alva Hinkle, each own considerable acreages of timber land which have a common boundary line of approximately one-half mile. This mutual line had…