Byrd v. Masonite Corp.

The trial court granted a peremptory instruction in favor of the appellees, Masonite Corporation and Johnnie Hawthorne, defendants in the above styled cause, and the plaintiff, Julius C. Byrd, has appealed to this Court. He sued the appellees and Jim Williamson for the statutory penalty and the actual value of certain pine trees that had been cut and removed from forty acres of land admittedly owned by him at the time of the cutting and removal of the trees in question.

The actual value of the trees was shown to be at least $400 or $500, and the plaintiff, on the appeal here, does not contend…