Hiawannee Lumber Co. v. McPhearson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the circuit court of Wayne county. Hon. William H. Hardy, Judge. McPhearson, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the Hiwannee Lumber Company, a corporation, and others, appellants, were defendants there. Prom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendants appealed to the supreme court.
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Prom the circuit court of Wayne county. Hon. William H. Hardy, Judge. McPhearson, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the Hiwannee Lumber Company, a corporation, and others, appellants, were defendants there. Prom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendants appealed to the supreme court. McPhearson sued the Hiwannee Lumber Company and others, his declaration containing two counts, one under Code 1906, § 4976, for the statutory penalty of $15 per tree for the alleged cutting by defendants of timber trees on plaintiff’s land, while the second count demanded a recovery of the actual value…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
In addition to- cases cited by counsel for appellee-, see Gulf, etc., Ry. Co. v. Clarke, 101 Fed. 678, 41 C. C. A. 597; Case v. Edgeworth, 87 Ala. 203, 5 South. 783.
Affirmed.
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. ClarkCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1900
- Case v. EdgeworthSupreme Court of Alabama · 1888
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- Methodist Episcopal Camp Ground Ass'n v. BrownMississippi Supreme Court · 1913