Mrs. Virgie D. Shepherd v. J. C. Mahannah, Trustee for Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for damages for the alleged unlawful cutting of timber from certain lands located in Issaquena County, Mississippi. The appellant, who claims to be the owner of the land in question, filed suit against Anderson-Tully Company, and the latter answered the complaint, admitted that it had cut the timber, but alleged that the right to do so was acquired by it from J. C. Mahan-nah, trustee of Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company. It then moved that Mahannah be brought in as a third party defendant, which was done. Mahannah admitted all of the allegations of the third…