Neidlinger v. Mobley

E. L. Mobley and E. L. Mobley Jr. sued J. D. Neidlinger for $9000 as damages for the alleged unlawful and wilful cutting and removing from certain lands of sixty thousand feet of timber owned by them of the value of $150 per thousand. The defendant admitted going upon the lands described and cutting timber thereon, but claimed that the timber he cut was purchased by Brunswick Pulp and Paper Company under a lease made to it. He denied that the cutting he did was in violation of plaintiffs’ lease and that he cut any timber owned by the plaintiffs. The jury returned a verdict for $900 in favor…