Callaway v. Perdue

Carretón Harris, Chief Justice.

In September, 1944, P. L. Callaway and his wife, Irene, conveyed 320 acres of land to their grandson, Logan Lee Perdue, age one and one-half years. In April, 1955, Mrs. Callaway was appointed guardian of the person and estate of the minor. In February, 1963, Mrs. Callaway died.

In April, .1963, Logan Lee Perdue, then twenty years of age, whose disabilities as a minor had been previously removed, 1 instituted suit against his grandfather and H. A. Etheridge, alleging that these individuals had, in 1953, cut and removed timber growing on the lands (which had been…