Crowell & Spencer Lumber Co. v. Lacaze

DORE, Judge.

This is a suit for trespass for the illegal cutting and removing of 40,979 feet of timber from plaintiff’s land in Evangeline Parish wherein plaintiff seeks to recover of the defendants in solido, as the manufactured value thereof, the sum of $942.52, with legal interest from judicial demand, subject to a credit of $50 paid on August 10, 1937.

Plaintiff avers that on or about the 13th day of May, 1937, defendants cut and removed from its property certain timber in the amount mentioned well knowing it to be the timber of plaintiff; that at that time the defendant Clark was under a…