Cooper River Timber Co. v. Cone

The complaint in this action alleges among other things, that the plaintiff company and the defendant, Cone, are the owners of adjoining tracts of land in Dorchester County; that the defendant’s tract contains 80 acres, which he purchased subject to a lease thereon held by the company, and under the terms of which it had until March 27, 1930, to remove the timber therefrom; that about September, 1926, the defendant employed one J. P. Gaillard, a civil engineer, to make a survey and a map of his 80-acre tract; that Gail-lard made the survey, directed and assisted by Cone in running the lines…