Ducros v. St. Bernard Cypress Co.

This suit was instituted to recover from defendant 375,000 feet of cypress lumber, less the cost of manufacture, or, in lieu thereof, the net value of the lumber sued for, which is alleged to be $4,125, and, in addition thereto, $1,000 for hardwood timber, felled and destroyed by defendant on land claimed by plaintiff, and also to recover from defendant $155, the costs of" making a survey to ascertain the extent of damage which plaintiff claims defendant caused him to suffer. Plaintiff’s contention is that defendant entered upon his land, cut and removed therefrom, in bad faith, cypress…