Gulf Red Cedar Co. v. Crenshaw
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Butler Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. L. D. Gardner. Bill by Louisa Crenshaw and others against the Gulf Red Cedar Company, for an accounting for complainants interest in certain timber cut and sold by respondent. From the decree rendered respondent appeals.
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Appeal from Butler Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. L. D. Gardner. Bill by Louisa Crenshaw and others against the Gulf Red Cedar Company, for an accounting for complainants interest in certain timber cut and sold by respondent. From the decree rendered respondent appeals. Counsel insist that as this is a bill between tenants in common for an accounting, complainant is held to that measure of damages in amount of their interest in the timber actually cut and taken, and that they cannot he held as tort feasors. They further insist that the only evidence in the record furnishing anything like a…
1Opinion of the CourtMayfield, J.
This is the fifth appeal in this case. See reports of former appeals, 131 Ala. 117, 30 South. 466, 90 Am. St. Rep. 22; 138 Ala. 134, 35 South. 50; 148 Ala. 343, 42 South. 564; 169 Ala. 606, 53 South. 812. *609The law and the equities governing this case, save as to a final accounting, were settled on former appeals. The parties are tenants in common of 640 acres of land, comprising the south halves of sections 7 and 8, township 11, range 13, in Butler county. The tract was therefore two miles in length, from east to west, and a half mile in breadth, from north to south. The suit is by the…
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