J. R. Buckwalter Lumber Co. v. Wright

J. A. Wright and liis wife, Mrs. J. A. Wright, filed a suit against the J. B. Buckwalter Lumber Company and L. C. Ethridge and Tom Moran for the actual value, and the statutory penalty of fifteen dollars per tree for fifty-two pine trees alleged to have been carelessly, negligently, and willfully cut without authority of law, and without permission or authority of the plaintiffs, upon certain lands described in the bill. The defendants pleaded the general issue. The proof for the plaintiffs failed to show that. Mrs. J. A. Wright did not consent to the cutting of the timber. There was also a…