Gulf City Shingle Manufacturing Co. v. Boyles
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the 'Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried, before the Hon. John 0. Anderson. This. was an action of trover brought by Fannie A. Boyles, the appellee, against the Gulf City Shingle Manufacturing Company, a corporation,-seeking, to recover damages, as alleged in the complaint, for the wrongful conversion by the defendant of the “undivided one-half interest of the plaintiff in 57 cypress logs, containing in all about 2,284 cubic feet, the property of plaintiff.”
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Appeal from the 'Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried, before the Hon. John 0. Anderson. This. was an action of trover brought by Fannie A. Boyles, the appellee, against the Gulf City Shingle Manufacturing Company, a corporation,-seeking, to recover damages, as alleged in the complaint, for the wrongful conversion by the defendant of the “undivided one-half interest of the plaintiff in 57 cypress logs, containing in all about 2,284 cubic feet, the property of plaintiff.” Issue was joined upon the plea of the general issue. The facts of the case are sufficiently set forth in the opinion. Upon the…
1Opinion of the Court
HA11ALSON, J.
1. The facts out of which this suit .grew were, that the plaintiff claimed under a tax deed the land from which the timber in question was cut, which’land the Slaughters — Howard, Archie and Du-pree — claimed to own. Litigation was pending in the •chancery court between the .plaintiff and the Slaughters about the land, and a settlement or compromise, of the suit was effected by an agreement entered into by T. H. Boyles, representing the plaintiff, as her agent, and Howell Slaughter, representing the Slaughters, by the *196terms of which agreement, the cypress timber in question was…
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