Sackett v. Burt & Brabb Lumber Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Nunn —

Affirming.

This action was brought by appellant alleging that appellee committed a trespass upon Ms land and cut several hundred trees of the value of $2,300.00 and carried them away, and he asked judgment for their value. Appellee answered denying the trespass, and claimed that it had purchased the timber from one J. C. Napier the agent of the International Development Company or one of its agents who was at the time the owner of land from which the trees were cut. It denied that it cut or carried away the number of trees alleged or that they were of .the…