Kennerly v. Ocmulgee Lumber Co.

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court.

The facts of this case are within a narrow compass.

Ocmulgee Lumber Company, a corporation chartered under the laws of the State of Georgia, and duly domesticated under the laws of South Carolina, owns and operates a’sawmill near Summerville, S. C. Its main timber holdings in Dorchester County are on a tract of land containing nearly four thousand acres, the fee to which is owned by said Company. This lumber company, in accord with its custom as to its logging operations, entered into a contract with one W. L- Helmey, Jr, an experienced logging…