Marcum v. Marcum

BraNNON, President:

Martha Marcum ñled a bill in chancery in Mingo county against G-. D. Marcum stating that she owned a certain tract of land, and that the defendant was unlawfully cutting timber standing upon it, and would continue so to do until the land would be denuded of its timber, and that the timber constituted the chief value of the land, and that the defendant was insolvent, and praying that the defendant be enjoined from cutting and removing the timber. The defendant answered denying his insolvency, and setting up a contract with a former owner of the land by which he engaged to…