American Creosote Works, Inc. v. Campbell

On April 28,1923, Cicero Campbell, for himself individually and as tutor for his minor children, sold to the American Creosote Works, Inc., all of the merchantable pine timber on approximately 400 acres of land in Bienville parish for $300 cash; the purchaser being given ten years within which to remove the timber from one portion of the land and one year within which to remove it from the balance.

In the spring of 1927, long before the ten-year period had expired, Campbell sold some timber standing and growing on the same land to J. M. Duncan and J. J. McMichael, who cut and removed therefrom…