Dowies v. W. R. Pickering Lumber Co.

The plaintiffs are W. J. Dowies, Luther Dowies, and Alvie Dowies (the two last named suing by virtue of deeds to them by their father, W. J. Dowies) They allege that in April, 1906, and in March, 1912, they sold to the defendant companies, the Pickering Dumber Company and the Pickering Land & Timber Company, all of the “standing merchantable pine timber” on the lands described in their petition, granting said purchasers 20 years within which to remove the timber sold; that during the year 1920 the defendants began cutting and removing the timber, in the course of which operations they not…