Bingham v. Johnson

Appellee brought this suit to recover actual and exemplary damages from appellant, alleged to have been caused by the wrongful and malicious acts of appellant in trespassing upon the premises of appellee and destroying a gin plant situated thereon.

Plaintiff's petition alleges in substance: That he was the owner of the lands and premises described in his petition from December 8, 1908, until on or about August 1, 1917. That there was a cotton gin situated on said premises which was used for the purpose of ginning the cotton raised on plaintiffs land and that of other cotton farmers in the…