Acree v. Bufford
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Jacksou county. Hon. James H. Neville, Judge. Bufford, appellee, was plaintiff, and Aeree, appellant, defendant in the court below. The opinion states the case. ■ It must be remembered here that the immediate question before the court in relation to the liability of the defendant for special damages including court attendance and attorneys’ fee turns upon the question of defendant’s good faith.
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From the circuit court of Jacksou county. Hon. James H. Neville, Judge. Bufford, appellee, was plaintiff, and Aeree, appellant, defendant in the court below. The opinion states the case. ■ It must be remembered here that the immediate question before the court in relation to the liability of the defendant for special damages including court attendance and attorneys’ fee turns upon the question of defendant’s good faith. On this point it was manifestly proper to show the claim of title that he had to the property. That title might have been well founded or ill founded, but the ultimate and…
1Opinion of the CourtTerral, J.
Bufford sued Aeree in replevin for'twenty pieces of square timber valued at $8 per stick, and recovered $160 as the value of the timber, $40 as attorney’s fee, and $34 for lost time— making $234. The suit was brought originally against White, who was looking after the timber interests of Aeree in Jackson county, and Aeree, who resided in Alabama, was substituted as defendant. The twenty sticks of square timber were cut from lands bought by Aeree from a former owner, somewhere about the hme of purchase, and White, finding the sticks of timber lying upon the land purchased by Aeree from Vizard,…
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