Childers v. Wm. H. Coleman Co.

Complainant filed this bill, alleging his ownership in fee of a tract of land in Hardeman county comprising three hundred acres, and that the defendants Wm. H. Coleman and J. M. and F. L:- Marshall had entered upon said land and were committing waste by cutting and removing timber. Defendants answered the bill, averring that on March 7, 1904,- and prior to complainant’s purchase of said land, its then owner, J. S. Neely, *112sold and conveyed to one W. E. Small all of the white oak timber on said land, and that on July 12, 1906, the said W. E. Small, for value received, assigned all of his rights…