Wilkerson v. the Joyce-Watkins Co.

The defendants below, Tom and Frank Wilkerson, have appealed from a judgment rendered against them for $1,000 in favor of the Joyce-Watkins Company, a corporation, and hereinafter called the plaintiff, which judgment was rendered by the Circuit Judge holding the circuit court of Hardin county, without the intervention of a jury. The suit was begun by summons and a declaration was filed containing four counts. It was alleged that the plaintiff owned a large body of timbered lands in Hardin county —1384 acres — and that the defendants knowingly, intentionally, negligently and wilfully set out…