Cookville Coal & Lumber Co. v. Evans
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Titus County Court; W. E. Riddle, Judge. Action by Margaret Evans against the Cookville Coal & Lumber Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHodges, J.
The appellee sued the appellant for damages for cutting down and carrying away certain standing timber situated upon land owned by her, and sought to recover its value after having been manufactured into lumber. The appellant answered by general demurrer, general denial, plea of limitation, and specially that the cutting of the timber was due to an inadvertence and mistake, and tendered into court a sum alleged to be the value of the timber before its manufacture into lumber. The case was tried before a jury, and the following verdict returned: “We, the jury, find for the plaintiff and assess…
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