Sumrall v. Doggett

DAN M. LEE, J.,

for the Court:

Charles Ferrell Sumrall and others brought suit in the Chancery Court of Jasper County seeking partition of an alleged V6 interest in land inherited from his grandfather, W.D. Sumrall, Sr. Sumrall also sought damages from Bay Springs Forest Products, Inc. (Bay Springs) and Georgia Pacific Corp. (Georgia Pacific) for timber cut and removed from part of this land. The chancellor held that Sumrall was estopped equitably, judicially, and barred by the doctrine of laches; whereupon, he granted summary judgment against Sum-rail and in favor of all defendants. A fourth…