Hill v. State Box Co.

SCHOTTKY, J. pro tem.

Appellants, as successors in interest of Eldon L. Cleveland, commenced an action to enjoin respondent, State Box Company, from cutting and removing timber from Section 27, T. 18 N., R. 11 E., in Nevada County, and to quiet appellants’ title to said timber.

Respondent filed an answer denying that appellants had any right to said timber and also filed a cross-complaint in which they asserted their right to said timber under a written contract entered into on June 5, 1944, between Cleveland and respondent, State Box Company.

Said agreement recited that Cleveland was the owner…