Pate v. Bruner

BROWN, Justice.

The bill was filed December 1, 1941, by the appellee, one of three joint owners or tenants in common of the lands described in the bill and designated generally as “the Bruner Lands”, against the appellant Pate, not one of the joint owners, and seeks to recover damages in the form of a money decree, alleged to have accrued from the cutting by Pate of timber on said land and the conversion thereof to his use, to the damage of the complainant.

The original bill avers that, “During the years 1939 and 1940 the said C. A. Pate and his agent, servants and employees went on and upon…