Louisville Property Co. v. Lawson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

This action was brought by the appellant, Louisville Property Company, against the appellees, J. C. Lawson and M. A. Wheeler, to recover damages for the alleged wrongful cutting and removal by them of timber from an eighteen-acre tract of land described in the petition, of which appellant claimed to be the owner and in possession. By an amended petition filed before appellees answered it was averred that, after the institution of the action, appellant sold and, by deed, conveyed to one Thomas Cairns 10,443 23-100 acres of land, including the…