Brunning v. R. W. Hillcoat Co.

HIGGINS, Justice.

These two actions for damages for wilfull and deliberate trespass in cutting and .removing a quantity of merchantable trees from the respective lands of the plaintiffs were consolidated for trial with the stipulation that separate judgments be rendered.'

In both cases the defendants admitted that the plaintiffs owned the lands in question ; that their employees cut and removed certain long leaf pine and cypress trees therefrom and manufactured it into lumber; and that they were liable for the stumpage value of the timber. They pleaded having acted in good faith and denied…