Hitch v. Bailey

Hitch brought an action in trespass against Bailey,. Thigpen, and Tanner, to recover damages for cutting and removing timber from lot of land number two hundred ahd eighty-six, in the-sixth district of Coffee county, Georgia. The defendants denied liability. The case was tried under an agreed statement of facts,, in which it was conceded that if the plaintiff held superior title to-the land, he was entitled to recover $200; and the only legal question which arises under the admitted facts is, whether the plaintiff showed such a title in himself to the lot of land on which the alleged trespass…