Bayle v. Norris
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Harris County; W. P. Hamlen, Judge. Action by Joseph Bayle and others against W. H. Norris, receiver, and others. From a judgment for insufficient relief plaintiffs appealed, and defendants assigned cross-errors.
1Opinion of the CourtMcMEANS, J.
Joseph Bayle and his co-plaintiffs brought this suit against W. H. Norris, receiver of the Tyler County Band & Dumber Company, to recover damages in the sum of $35,000, alleged to have been sustained by them by reason of the defendant having unlawfully cut and removed from land alleged to belong to plaintiffs 5,000,000 feet of pine timber, which they alleged he manufactured into lumber and appropriated to his own use, the sum so sought to be recovered being the value of the timber after it was manufactured into lumber.
Plaintiffs alleged that they were the owners in fee simple of the land from…
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