State ex rel. Dowdell v. Allen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Blanchard, J.

Previously, relator had presented a petition to the district judge in which he represented he was engaged in the business of getting out ties; that these ties were made from cypress timber; that he held a contract from the owners of a certain tract of land, which he described, authorizing him to take the timber therefrom; and that he had entered upon the land for the purpose.

He] alleged further that the representatives of the Orphans’ Home Society and of the Freedman’s Aid and Southern Educational Society were interfering with his work of…