Southern Lumber Co. v. Hampton

The plaintiffs, Nancy Hampton and Peter Rogers, are the owners of a tract of land in Bradley County, containing 120 acres, and on May 3, 1909, Nancy Hampton, being then the owner of the land, executed to T. J. Sharp a deed conveying to Sharp the ■pine timber on said land of certain maximum dimensions, $1,000 cash in hand paid being the consideration. The timber deed contained the following stipulation:

“The party of the second part shall cut and remove the timber as expeditiously as possible, and it is ag-reed that, unless it shall have removed all the same within a period of twenty-one years…