Gilman Paper Company v. James

Ingram, Justice.

This litigation began with an equitable complaint filed by the appellee in the Superior Court of Clinch County, alleging that appellant had wilfully and maliciously entered upon the appellee’s land, felled and removed the timber and had continued acts of trespass thereon for which the appellee sought actual and punitive damages and injunctive relief. The appellee alleged that he was, and had been for more than 23 years, the owner and possessor of the 1.10 acres of land described in the complaint. The appellant denied, in its answer, that the appellee owned the land described…