E. L. Bruce Co. v. Smallwood

Mrs. Mary Jane Gullick, deceased, owned at the time of her death, on August 1, 1930, the 1601 acres of land from which the appellant cut and removed the timber involved in this suit, and which land she had used and occupied as a farm for approximately seventy years, and until the dwelling house thereon was destroyed by fire. The land was not inclosed by fence, due to the fact that the stock law was observed in the locality where the same was situated. After Mrs. Gullick died, intestate, leaving the appellees as her sole heirs at law, they took charge of the land and paid the taxes thereon…