Lawson v. Martin Timber Company

I regret my inability to accept the findings of fact and the application of the law reached by the author of the majority opinion. In this suit plaintiff alleges that the defendant, over his protest, about the month of July, 1951, cut and removed timber from the plaintiff’s land. He further alleges the moral bad faith of the defendant, and that as a consequence the defendant is liable to him for the converted value of the logs without allowances and deductions for the cost and expense of manufacturing same. In the alternative he contends that if the defendant was merely in legal bad faith…