Shaw v. Shaw

Plaintiff and defendant are brothers. They owned in common two hundred acres of timber land in Humboldt County. The value of such timber land was estimated (provided the timber was sufficient in quantity to justify cutting) at a dollar per thousand standing feet per acre. Thus, an acre of land containing one hundred thousand standing feet of timber was estimated to be worth one hundred dollars. The brothers desired to sell their two hundred acres and they had their land “cruised, ” that is to say, the amount of timber upon it approximately estimated, and were disappointed to find that it…