Simoneaux v. Lebermuth & Israel Planting Co.

CHARLES F. CLAIBORNE, JUDGE.

This is a suit for damages for cutting timber on plaintiff's lands.

The plaintiff alleged "that she is the owner of the Faustina Plantation, a sugar plantation situated in the Parish of St. James, Louisiana, which plantation contains a small tract of timber land sufficient to furnish wood for said plantation"; that the defendants, with full knowledge of petitioner's ownership, trespassed upon the "lands on which the said small tract of timber is or was and on April 1916 cut therefrom sixty trees ranging in diameter from six to thirty inches" of the value of #500.00;…