Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees v. State ex rel. Moore

*199Appellee, the state of Mississippi, on relation of R. D. Moore, land commissioner, sued appellant, Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees, in the circuit court of Pearl River county for the statutory penalty and for actual damages alleged to have been suffered by appellee by reason of appellant having cut and removed or destroyed trees on a sixteenth section not covered by its deed to the timber thereon, and recovered a judgment for which appellant prosecuted this appeal.

Appellant assigns and argues several alleged errors in the judgment appealed from, one of which is that the land commissioner…