Brooks v. Temple Lumber Co.

WALKER, Chief Justice.

This suit was filed in district court of Sabine county by appellants, Jennie Pratt Brooks and her husband, W. A. Brooks, against appellee, Temple Lumber Company, a corporation, for the manufactured value of timber cut and removed by appellee from certain land in Sabine county claimed by appellants; in the alternative, appellants claimed the stumpage value of the timber; they also claimed exemplary damages. The jury found that the stumpage value of the timber was $3 per thousand feet, and the manufactured value $10 per thousand; that 222,638 feet of the timber sued for…