Stout Lumber Company v. Reynolds

Appellee owns a quarter section of land, of which about fifty acres are in cultivation, and through' which Freo Creek, a stream having well defined banks, runs. Appellant owns a large body of timber land south of and adjacent to appellee’s tract, and on April 1, 1924, appellant entered into a contract with one P. C. Cottrell to cut and remove the merchantable timber from 840 acres of its land for an agreed price per thousand feet. The contract required Cottrell to cut the trees so that no stumps would be left higher than 18 inches from the ground and to cut the logs to lengths specified by…