Lewis v. Mays

The appellants, Arthur Lewis and Ed Lewis, purchased from Joe Hardin all the pine timber which measured over eight inches in diameter on a 160-acre tract of land in Searcy county. Appellee, Ed Mays, owned an adjoining tract, and on August 11,1943, brought this suit in which he alleged that appellants, through their agents and employees, trespassed upon his land in the spring of 1941, cut and removed a large number of pine trees, that such trespass was willful and without authority, and prayed judgment for three times the value of the trees. Appellants answered with a general denial. A jury…